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Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives
Academic journal article from Studies in American Indian Literatures, Vol. 23, No. 1
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Susan Sleeper-Smith, ed. Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8032-1948-9. 374 pp.
Until fairly recentiy, Indigenous peoples and museums have had an uneven relationship. In the past, museums warehoused and displayed cultural items and even peoples and presented edited versions of history told from one side. They presented half-told histories about the West's progress and development as if Indigenous peoples played no role in shaping local communities or even the United States and other settler nations. Indigenous peoples were merely reminders of a bygone era, and museums displayed their so-called primitiveness and …
