Decolonizing Museums by Amy LonetreeCall Number: 970.00497 L8479D and E-BOOK
ISBN: 0807837156
Publication Date: 2012
Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role in determining exhibition content. In Decolonizing Museums, Amy Lonetree examines the complexities of these new relationships with an eye toward exploring how museums can grapple with centuries of unresolved trauma as they tell the stories of Native peoples. She investigates how museums can honor an Indigenous worldview and way of knowing, challenge stereotypical representations, and speak the hard truths of colonization within exhibition spaces to address the persistent legacies of historical unresolved grief in Native communities. Lonetree addresses historical and contemporary museum practices and charts possible paths for the future curation and presentation of Native lifeways.