The changing presentation of the American Indian : museums and native cultures.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Seattle : National Museum of the American Indian ; In association with University of Washington Press, [2000]
Subjects:	Indians of North America > Museums > Congresses. Intercultural communication > Congresses. Museum techniques > Congresses. Indians in popular culture > Congresses. Indians of North America > Public opinion > Congresses.

Table of Contents:

A new idea of ourselves: the changing presentation of the American Indian / W. Richard West
Presenting the American Indian: from Europe to America / Evan M. Maurer
"Our" Indians: the unidimensional Indian in the disembodied local past / James D. Nason
The poetics of museum representations: tropes of recent American Indian art exhibitions / David W. Penney
The integration of traditional Indian beliefs into the Museum at Warm Springs / Janice Clements
Are changing representations of first peoples in Canadian museums and galleries challenging the curatorial prerogative? / Michael M. Ames
Learn about our past to understand our future: the story of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe / Jocelyn Wedll.