The Changing Presentation of the American Indian
Subtitle: Museums and Native Cultures
Publisher: University of Washington Press; National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9780295977812
Subjects: Cultural studies; Ethnography; Indigenous peoples; Museums & Museology; Museology (General); Native American Sociology; Social Science; Art & Art Instruction; Sociology; North America; American - Native American; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; Native American; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Congresses; Indians of North America; Intercultural communication; Museum techniques; Museums
Description: "This book is the result of a symposium organized by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). It brings together six prominent museum professionals - Native and non-Native - to examine the ways in which Indians and their cultures have been represented by museums in North America and to present new directions museums are already taking.".

"Traditional museum exhibitions of Native American art and culture often represented only the past, ignoring the living Native voice. Today, museums have begun to incorporate the Native perspective in their displays. Even more dramatic is the increasing number of Indian-run museums, such as the Mille Lacs Indian Museum in Minnesota and the Museum at Warm Springs in Oregon.

These essays explore the relationships being forged between museums and Native communities to create new techniques for presenting Native American culture."--BOOK JACKET.