Book
Plundered skulls and stolen spirits : inside the fight to reclaim native America's culture
Publication Information
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Physical Description
348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
"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.
Contents
- Introduction
- Resistance: war gods. Only after night fall ; Keepers of the sky ; Magic relief ; Tribal resolution ; All things will eat themselves up ; This far away
- Regret: a scalp from Sand Creek. I have come to kill Indians ; The Bones Bill ; We are going back home ; Indian trophies ; AC. 35B ; A wound of the soul
- Reluctance: killer whale flotilla robe. Masterless things ; Chief Shakes ; Johnson v. Chilkat Indian Village ; Last stand ; The weight was heavy ; Our culture is not dying
- Respect: Calusa skulls. The hardest cases ; Long since completely disappeared ; Unidentifiable ; Their place of understanding ; Timeless limbo ; Before we just gave up
- Conclusion.
Subjects
- Indians of North America > Antiquities.
- Indians of North America > Material culture > United States.
- Human remains (Archaeology) > Repatriation > United States.
- Cultural property > Repatriation > United States.
- Museums and Indians > United States.
- Anthropological museums and collections > United States.
- Archaeology > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
- Anthropological ethics > United States.
- United States. Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.