By W. Richard West
Museums--along with books, newspapers, and Wild West exhibits within the nineteenth century, videos and tv within the 20th--have formed our perceptions of yankee Indians. This booklet brings jointly six trendy museum professionals--Native and non-Native--to study the ways that Indians and their cultures were represented by way of museums in North the United States and to provide new instructions museums are already taking.
Traditional museum exhibitions of local American artwork and tradition usually represented in basic terms the earlier, ignoring the dwelling local voice. this present day, museums have all started to include local views of their monitors. much more dramatic is the expansion within the variety of Indian-run museums. those essays discover the relationships being solid among museums and local groups to create new recommendations for proposing local American tradition. This book will serve to stimulate the discussions and analyses that may result in new partnerships and collaborations.
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