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Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums (First Peoples, New Directions in Indigenous Studies)

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Museum exhibitions specializing in Native American history have long been curator controlled. Alternatively, a shift is happening, 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 deal with the persistent legacies of historical unresolved grief in Native communities.
Lonetree specializes in the representation of Native Americans in exhibitions on 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 team of workers members. She addresses historical and up to date museum practices and charts imaginable paths for the long run curation and presentation of Native lifeways.

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