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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"A fascinating account of both the historical and current struggle of Native Americans to recover sacred objects that have been plundered and sold to museums. Museum curator and anthropologist Chip Colwell asks the all-important question: Who owns the past? Museums that care for the objects of history or the communities whose ancestors made them?"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Missionary Henry Spalding shipped two barrels of "Indian curiosities" to Ohio in 1847. The author delves into the story of the exquisite Nez Perce shirts, dresses, baskets, and horse regalia, the tribe's grassroots campaign to restore their exploited cultural heritage, and the ethics of acquiring and selling Native cultural history"--
Author
Pub. Date
©2000
Description
"Sacred Objects and Sacred Places combines native oral histories, photographs, drawings, and case studies to present current issues of cultural preservations vital to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians. Complete with commentaries by curators, native peoples, and archaeologists, this book discusses the repatriation of human remains, the curation and exhibition of sacred masks and medicine bundles, and key cultural compromises for...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"After taking an assignment as a supervisor for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, agent Lucinda Schroeder felt chafed by the restrictions of her desk job. She'd spent her career making cases against wildlife poachers, smugglers, and people who exploited wildlife for huge sums of money. As a supervisor she wasn't allowed to carry a case load. Her responsibility was to oversee the work of five other agents as they investigated wildlife crimes. But...
Pub. Date
©2001
Description
Archaeological work in the southwestern United States has undergone tremendous growth during the last fifteen years, prompting vigorous debate over interpretation of the archaeological record. But renewed theoretical conflicts have been accompanied by the recognition that prehistoric burial practices provide an unparalleled opportunity for understanding and reconstructing ancient civilizations and for identifying the influences that helped shape them.To...