AltaMira Press
Pages: 224
Trim: 6 x 9½
978-0-7591-1089-2 • Paperback • November 2007 • $56.00 • (£43.00)
978-0-7591-1354-1 • eBook • December 2007 • $53.00 • (£41.00)
Karen Coody Cooper was recently the Museum Training Program Coordinator at the National Museum of the American Indian, and was formerly Training Programs Manager at the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies. She holds a Master of Liberal Studies degree, with a museum and anthropology emphasis, from the University of Oklahoma and is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
Chapter 1 Author's Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction: American Indians, Museums and Protest
Part 3 Part I: Protesting Exhibitions
Chapter 4 Chapter One: Politics and Sponsorship
Chapter 5 Chapter Two: Display of Sacred Objects
Chapter 6 Chapter Three: Display of Human Remains
Chapter 7 Chapter Four: Art Confined to a Reservation of its Own
Part 8 Part II: The Long Road to Repatriation
Chapter 9 Chapter Five: Demands for Return of Material Objects
Chapter 10 Chapter Six: Demands for Return of Human Remains
Part 11 Part III: Whose Heroes and Holidays
Chapter 12 Chapter Seven: No Celebration for Columbus
Chapter 13 Chapter Eight: Thanksgiving Mourned
Chapter 14 Chapter Nine: The Custer Chronicles
Part 15 Part IV: Claiming Our Own Places
Chapter 16 Chapter Ten: Native Cultural Sites
Chapter 17 Chapter Eleven: Transforming Museums
Chapter 18 Conclusion: Achievements Gained by Protests
This monograph raises significant questions and reveals numerous debates surrounding such issues as ownership and access to museum collections and archives; the repatriation of human remains, funerary items, and cultural patrimony; Native American traditional and modern art and art museums; the need for consultation and collarboration with Indigenous peoples and communities;and the importance of sacred sites.
— Majel Boxer, 2010; Great Plains Research
A straightforward account that touches on the major issues confronting museums in any multicultural society. Appropriate for anyone interested in cultural heritage issues. Highly recommended.
— Choice Reviews, November 2008