Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums

by Amy Lonetree

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807837156
• ISBN13: 9780807837153
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"