First Nations, Museums, Narrations: Stories of the 1929 Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian Prairies

by Alison K. Brown

Book Overview

When the Franklin Motor Expedition set out across the Canadian Prairies to collect First Nations artifacts, brutal assimilation policies threatened to decimate these cultures and extensive programs of ethnographic salvage were in place. Despite having only three members, the expedition amassed the largest single collection of Prairie heritage items currently held in a British museum. In this book, Alison K. Brown draws together the multiple narratives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774827254
• ISBN13: 9780774827256
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"