Spirited Encounters: American Indians Protest Museum Policies and Practices

by Karen Coody Cooper

Book Overview

During the twentieth century, American Indians across North America organized protests against traditional museum treatment of Native materials and the Native community. In response, museums began to change their methods. Spirited Encounters provides a foundation for understanding museums, examines how museums collect Native materials, and explores protest as a fully American process of addressing grievances. Now that museums and American Indians...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759110891
• ISBN13: 9780759110892
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"