Based on papers presented at a symposium called The changing presentation of the American Indian, held Oct. 8, 1995, George Gustav Heye Center, National Museum of the American Indian, New York. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
A new idea of ourselves: the changing presentation of the American Indian / W. Richard West -- Presenting the American Indian: from Europe to America / Evan M. Maurer -- "Our" Indians: the unidimensional Indian in the disembodied local past / James D. Nason -- The poetics of museum representations: tropes of recent American Indian art exhibitions / David W. Penney -- The integration of traditional Indian beliefs into the Museum at Warm Springs / Janice Clements -- Are changing representations of first peoples in Canadian museums and galleries challenging the curatorial prerogative? / Michael M. Ames -- Learn about our past to understand our future: the story of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe / Jocelyn Wedll.
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