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Introduction | A New Idea of Ourselves: The Changing Presentation of the American Indian / W. Richard West, Jr.

1. Presenting the American Indian: From Europe to America / Evan M. Maurer
2. “Our” Indians: The Unidimensional Indian in the Disembodied Local Past / James D. Nason
3. The Poetics of Museum Representations: Tropes of Recent American Indian Art Exhibitions / David W. Penney
4. The Integration of Traditional Indian Beliefs into the Museum at Warm Springs / Janice Clements
5. Are Changing Representations of First Peoples in Canadian Museums and Galleries Challenging the Curatorial Prerogative? / Michael M. Ames
6. Learn About Our Past to Understand Our Future: The Story of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe / Joycelyn Wedll

Appendices
Contributors
Index

The Changing Presentation of the American Indian

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      Publisher MV - University of Washington Press
      Published 8 March 2015
      ISBN-13 9780295996370
      978-0295996370
      ISBN-10 0295996374
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      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Introduction | A New Idea of Ourselves: The Changing Presentation of the American Indian / W. Richard West, Jr.

      1. Presenting the American Indian: From Europe to America / Evan M. Maurer
      2. “Our” Indians: The Unidimensional Indian in the Disembodied Local Past / James D. Nason
      3. The Poetics of Museum Representations: Tropes of Recent American Indian Art Exhibitions / David W. Penney
      4. The Integration of Traditional Indian Beliefs into the Museum at Warm Springs / Janice Clements
      5. Are Changing Representations of First Peoples in Canadian Museums and Galleries Challenging the Curatorial Prerogative? / Michael M. Ames
      6. Learn About Our Past to Understand Our Future: The Story of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe / Joycelyn Wedll

      Appendices
      Contributors
      Index

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