Spirited Encounters
American Indians Protest Museum Policies and Practices- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2007
Summary
During the twentieth century, dozens of protests, large and small, occurred across North America as American Indians asserted their anger and displayed their disappointment regarding traditional museum behaviors. In response, due to public embarrassment and an awakening of sensitivities, museums began to change their methods and, additionally, laws were enacted in support of American Indian requests for change. The result is that American museums have revised their long-held practices due to American Indian protests. Spirited Encounters provides a foundation for understanding museums and looks at their development to present time, examines how museums collect Native materials, and explores protest as a fully American process of addressing grievances. Now that museums and American Indians are working together in the processes of repatriation, this book can help each side understand the other more fully.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2007
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7591-1089-2
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7591-1354-1
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 207
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Preface No access
- Introduction: American Indians, Museums, and Protest No access Pages 1 - 14
- 1 Politics and Sponsorship of The Spirit Sings No access
- 2 Display of Sacred Objects No access
- 3 Display of Human Remains No access
- 4 Art Confined to a Reservation of Its Own No access
- 5 Demands for Return of Material Objects No access
- 6 Demands for Return of Human Remains No access
- 7 No Celebration for Columbus No access
- 8 Thanksgiving Mourned No access
- 9 The Custer Chronicles No access
- 10 Native Cultural Sites No access
- 11 Transforming Museums No access
- Conclusion: Achievements Gained by Protests No access Pages 171 - 182
- Works Cited No access Pages 183 - 196
- Index No access Pages 197 - 206
- About the Author No access Pages 207 - 207





