Spirited Encounters: American Indians Protest Museum Policies and PracticesDuring the twentieth century, American Indians across North America organized protests against traditional museum treatment of Native materials and the Native community. In response, museums began to change their methods. Spirited Encounters provides a foundation for understanding museums, 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. |
Contents
Politics and Sponsorship of The Spirit Sings | 21 |
Display of Sacred Objects | 29 |
Display of Human Remains | 39 |
Art Confined to a Reservation of Its Own | 49 |
The Long Road to Repatriation | 61 |
Demands for Return of Material Objects | 65 |
Demands for Return of Human Remains | 85 |
Whose Heroes and Holidays | 105 |
The Custer Chronicles | 131 |
Claiming Our Own Places | 137 |
Native Cultural Sites | 143 |
Transforming Museums | 155 |
Achievements Gained by Protests | 171 |
Works Cited | 183 |
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