Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives

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345 Index Page numbers in italic refer to illustrations Aboriginal people, Australia, 247n68 Acoma Pueblo, 252–53 Adams, Robert McCormick, 149n3 advocacy, 236–37 aesthetics, 85, 222, 253. See also ugliness African Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior of Africa, 53–54, 58 African International Council of Museums , 12 Africans, ethnographic display of, 10, 45–64 Ahayu:da, 311, 317 Aimoré people. See Botocudo airfa. See American Indian Religious Freedom Act (airfa) alcoholism, 331, 332 aldeias. See villages, Brazil Alfred, Taiaiake, 326 All Roads Are Good (exhibit), 224–25, 226 American Anthropological Association, 75, 310 American Indian gaming, 101n72, 210, 252, 266, 284 American Indian Religious Freedom Act (airfa), 284, 287 American Indian remains, 100n65, 134, 135, 138, 151n19, 152n24. See also Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (nagpra) American Indian removals, 260–63 American Indian-run archives. See tribal archives American Indian-run museums. See tribal museums American Indians, California, 284–302; Chicago, 238; in films, 146–47; Michigan, 255, 327–35; New Mexico, 252–53, 303–321; New York, 259, 260, 261, 263, 266, 268; Wisconsin, 257–82. See also Museum of the American Indian (mai); National Museum of the American Indian (nmai); tribal museums American Museum of Natural History (amnh), 76, 78, 79, 97n48 Ames, Michael, 221 amm. See U.S. Army Medical Museum ancestors, Ojibwe and, 333–34 Anderson, Benedict, 264, 297 Anishinabe. See Ojibwe people Anthropological Athletic Meet, 59 anthropology, 69, 76, 110, 221, 225–26, 253, 310–11; photography and, 311–12. See also salvage anthropology Anyon, Roger, 317 apartheid, 107, 110, 114, 121, 122, 124n12 apprenticeship programs, 319 346 Index archaeology, 76, 77, 117, 169, 275, 296, 311 archives, 18, 28. See also tribal archives Aristotle, 309 Army Medical Museum. See U.S. Army Medical Museum (amm) artifacts, 1–2, 84–85, 169–70, 265, 299, 336n11; All Roads Are Good exhibit, 224–25, 226; amm and, 138; authenticity , 243n14; captured weapons as, 88; climate control and, 145; cocurators and, 223; collectors’ attachment to, 67–68; Creation’s Journey exhibit, 225; Hupa, 254, 289–90; Huichol, 211; labeling, 98n56, 144; lack of documentation, 104n84; nmai and, 11–12, 92n28, 244n30; Metis, 173; Ojibwe, 333–34; Oneida, 259, 266; personal talismans, 166–67; as primary texts, 69, 78, 89n16, 103n78, 144; repatriation of, 83, 93n34, 136, 288, 313, 317; representative of a class, 297; reproduction of, 310; “rubbish theory” and, 105n89; “salvage” and, 11; situated in cultural context, 224; as “speaking subjects,” 221; theft, 94n40; Zuni, 313, 314, 317. See also dance regalia; funerary and sacred objects; preservation; replicas art museums, 69, 89n14, 280n17 art, Native. See Native art A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center, 253–54, 303–4, 313–14 Asociación Jalisciense de Apoyo a los Grupos Indígenas, 216n24 assimilation, 262, 267, 273, 277 Atlanta Braves, 147 audience. See museum audience audio in museums, 331, 333 Australia, 247n68 authenticity, 242n11, 243n14, 244n33, 269, 273, 284; community museums and, 120; dioramas and, 108; ethnographic showcases and, 50; Kwakwa ka’wakw and, 281n42; nmai and, 218, 219, 221, 224, 227, 228, 231, 239; South Africa, 60, 108, 112; tribal museums and, 265; West Side Stories, and, 177 Autshumato, 113 Aztecs, 197 Baartman, Saartjie, 53–54, 57, 58 bae. See Bureau of American Ethnology (bae) Bancos de San Hipólito, Durango, 207 baptism, 187n11 bar. See Bureau of Acknowledgement and Recognition Bartolomé, Miguel, 204 Batoche National Historic Site, 168, 176 Battle of Seven Oaks, 159, 185n4, 185n6 Batwa, 58 Baudrillard, Jean, 67 Baumann, Richard, 200 beadwork, 174, 182, 333; in art, 175, 177, 183 Beauval, Saskatchewan, 182 Belcourt, Christi, 175, 177 Benga, Ota, 58, 62 Bennett, Tony, 82 berdaches, 312 Berkhofer, Robert, 263 Bernstein, Bruce, 90n18, 238 Bird, Junius, 90n23 Bird, S. Elizabeth, 146 Black Body (Mohanram), 61 blended languages. See languages, blended Bleek, Wilhelm, 112 blood, 199, 202, 204 “blood memory,” 333 Blood Red Gringo. See Red Gringo Blue Mestizo, 198 Index 347 boarding schools, 181–82, 191n29, 264, 330 Boas, Franz, 76, 77, 224 Boast, Robin, 316 boats, 191n27. See also York boats Bodinger de Uriarte, John J., 266 Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva, José, 27–28 Bosjemans. See San Botocudo, 9, 15, 17, 18–34, 36–37, 41nn32–33 Bouvier, Rita, 183 Bowechop, Janine, 275 boxcars, 73, 93n31 Brandt, Elizabeth, 306 Brazil, 9–10, 15–44 Brazilian Historical and Geographic Institute. See Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro Bredekamp, Henry, 113 Briggs...