Interpreting Native American History and Culture at Museums and Historic Sites
Interpreting Native American History and Culture at Museums and Historic Sites

Author: Raney Bench

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2014-10-30

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 075912339X

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Interpreting Native American History and Culture at Museums and Historic Sites features ideas and suggested best practices for the staff and board of museums that care for collections of Native material culture, and who work with Native American culture, history, and communities. This resource gives museum and history professionals benchmarks to help shape conversations and policies designed to improve relations with Native communities represented in the museum. The book includes case studies from museums that are purposefully working to incorporate Native people and perspectives into all aspects of their work. The case study authors share experiences, hoping to inspire other museum staff to reach out to tribes to develop or improve their own interpretative processes. Examples from tribal and non-tribal museums, and partnerships between tribes and museums are explored as models for creating deep and long lasting partnerships between museums and the tribal communities they represent. The case studies represent museums of different sizes, different missions, and located in different regions of the country in an effort to address the unique history of each location. By doing so, it inspires action among museums to invite Native people to share in the interpretive process, or to take existing relationships further by sharing authority with museum staff and board.

Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums
Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums

Author: Anoma Pieris

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781442264069

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Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums: An Illustrated International Survey documents a rich legacy of collaboration across the spatial disciplines combining creative art practice, architecture, construction, landscape design, and urban design in the production of unique and culturally significant social institutions. This book covers a wide range

Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums
Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums

Author: Anoma Pieris

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-07-14

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1442264071

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Here is a lavishly illustrated descriptive survey of 48 leading indigenous cultural centers around the world (35 are from Australia and 13 from North America, Japan, Europe, and Asia). The book shows how each is a potentially transformative, politically compelling addition to the field of cultural production, illustrating how the facilities --- all built in the last three decades --- have challenged assumptions about nature, culture, and built form. Using the spatial-temporal practice of place-making as the starting point, the facilities highlighted here are described in terms of collaborations between a number of stake-holders and professional consultants. The book adopts the format of a descriptive survey with separate chapters devoted to individual case studies. A broad introductory chapter which presents the arguments and overview precedes richly illustrated short individual essays on selected projects. Each chapter commences with the details of the project including, location, area, cost and consultants, followed by a project description, and discussion of background, design development and reception of the projects. Each project is approached as an architectural commission, detailing the critical criteria, consultants, and processes. The format is adopted from architectural review essays typically used in awards or journal publications within the profession which are accessible and relevant for both academics and practitioners. Considerable attention is given to the process, and to the evaluation of the project as a cultural response. Each case study has been written with consultation of architects or administrators of the facilities for accuracy. Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums: An Illustrated International Survey documents a rich legacy of collaboration across the spatial disciplines combining creative art practice, architecture, construction, landscape design and urban design in the production of unique and culturally significant social institutions. This book provides material on hitherto unknown bodies of work of talented architectural practices, working collaboratively with culturally different client groups and developing consultative processes that test models for inter-cultural engagement.

Decolonizing Museums
Decolonizing Museums

Author: Amy Lonetree

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2012-11-19

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0807837520

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Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role in determining exhibition content. In Decolonizing Museums, Amy Lonetree examines the complexities of these new relationships with an eye toward exploring how museums can grapple with centuries of unresolved trauma as they tell the stories of Native peoples. She investigates how museums can honor an Indigenous worldview and way of knowing, challenge stereotypical representations, and speak the hard truths of colonization within exhibition spaces to address the persistent legacies of historical unresolved grief in Native communities. Lonetree focuses on the representation of Native Americans in exhibitions at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, the Mille Lacs Indian Museum in Minnesota, and the Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture and Lifeways in Michigan. Drawing on her experiences as an Indigenous scholar and museum professional, Lonetree analyzes exhibition texts and images, records of exhibition development, and interviews with staff members. She addresses historical and contemporary museum practices and charts possible paths for the future curation and presentation of Native lifeways.

The Future of Indigenous Museums
The Future of Indigenous Museums

Author: Nick Stanley

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1845455967

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Indigenous museums and cultural centres have sprung up across the developing world, and particularly in the Southwest Pacific. This book looks to the future of museum practice through examining how these museums have evolved to incorporate the present and the future in the display of culture.

New Museum Theory and Practice
New Museum Theory and Practice

Author: Janet Marstine

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1405148829

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New Museum Theory and Practice is an original collection ofessays with a unique focus: the contested politics and ideologiesof museum exhibition. Contains 12 original essays that contribute to the field whilecreating a collective whole for course use. Discusses theory through vivid examples and historicaloverviews. Offers guidance on how to put theory into practice. Covers a range of museums around the world: from art tohistory, anthropology to music, as well as historic houses,cultural centres, virtual sites, and commercial displays that usethe conventions of the museum. Authors come from the UK, Canada, the US, and Australia, andfrom a variety of fields that inform cultural studies.

American Indian Cultural Centers of the Northwest Region
American Indian Cultural Centers of the Northwest Region

Author: Jana Marie Tschopp

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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This thesis centers on research that was done during the months of May through June, 2002, with six American Indian museums/cultural centers. The hypothetical question asked was: Which artifacts are put on exhibit for the outside viewer and why? Secondly, how much information is dispersed to the mainstream American Public and what is held back? The data gathered from these museums/cultural centers show that the six are very similar in their guidelines and that all of them depend on the elders of the associated tribal communities to set these mandates. While all of the centers relied on elders and advisory boards for their guidelines, the major factor in determining what is exhibited and how much information is disseminated is based heavily on the ideology of sacredness. These museums/cultural centers chose not to show the same type of artifacts due to their sacred nature. Objects included are sacred bundles, grave goods, religious and curing paraphernalia, certain songs and stories, and animal effigies. Items considered to be of a sacred nature are kept carefully preserved in storage areas. The manner in which the museums/cultural centers exhibited their artifacts to the mainstream viewer and the tribal community itself concerns issues of representation. These are particularly important now that there is a steadily increasing number of American Indians maintaining their own museums/cultural centers and telling their own histories, lifeways, and cultures. Events such as the civil rights movement and feminism helped establish a growing desire to represent sovereignty and indigenous culture from an insider's worldview.