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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The volume exemplifies respectful and relational engagement with Indigenous art and advocates for more accountable scholarship and practices."
* New Books Network *
"The many stories and essays in Unsettling Native Art Histories provided me with valuable new teachings and perspectives. I recommend it highly to people of diverse interests in the fields of art, anthropology, history, ethnology, and contemporary Indigenous issues."
* The Ormsby Review *
"[A]n enjoyable source to learn about emerging research and writers in its field... For humanities scholars attuned to material culture, museum practitioners, and Indigenous art enthusiasts more broadly, the book is generous in ideas and exemplars to better understand ancestral and current arts holistically and to set new directions for engagement at museums and galleries."
* Journal of Folklore Research *
"Exemplifying the Indigenous methodologies of respect, reciprocity, and relationality, this book is a model for art historians, curators, and other scholars who want to develop more ethical relationships with the communities whose belongings they store, care for, and study, and is highly recommended for anyone who wants to learn from stories of Indigenous lives enriched by renewed relationships with their ancestral belongings."
* Western Historical Quarterly *
"[A] valuable contribution to the growing body of scholarship working to center Indigenous voices in Northwest Coast art studies... This volume will certainly become a classic and is an excellent learning tool and essential library addition for anyone interested in Indigenous studies, museum practice, or Northwest Coast art history."
* First American Art Magazine *
"Given that the apprehension of Northwest Coast Native art is an ever-evolving process, these essays provide readers with an urgently required snapshot of dynamiccontemporary strategies."
* American Indian Culture & Research Journal *
"Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast questions the very notion of art and problematizes colonial approaches to Indigenous art. Editors Bunn-Marcuse and Jonaitis are particularly interested in how overturning Western ideals can unsettle colonial museum practices."
* Transforming Anthropology *
"An incredible volume of Northwest Coast scholarship, art-historical analysis, Indigenous knowledge, and a confluence of literary power linked together through intergenerational visioning, Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast signals a change in how Indigenous art is contextualized both academically and institutionally."
* Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse
PART I. Cultural Heritage Protection: Questions of Rights and Authorityr>A Bear in the Cedar, by Duane Niatum
Chapter 1. The Seward Shame Pole: A Tlingit Countermonument to the Alaska Purchase
Emily L. Moore
Chapter 2. The Social Life of Stones: Haida hlg̱as7agaa/argillite and the Making of Inalienable Commodities
Kaitlin McCormick
Chapter 3. Morse Code for Creation: Jim Schoppert's Painterly Language for a Postmodern Revival
Christopher Green
Chapter 4. From "Artifakes" to "Surrogates": The Replication of Northwest Coast Carving by Non-Natives
Janet Catherine Berlo and Aldona Jonaitis
PART II. Women's Work: Stories, Art, and Power
>One Square Inch, by Lily Hope
Chapter 5. Stl'inll ~ Those with Clever Hands: Presenting Female Indigenous Art and Scholarship
Jisgang Nika Collison
Chapter 6. Copper Seaweed and Woven Octopus Bags: Shgen George and the Art of Resilience
Megan A. Smetzer
Chapter 7. Ellen Neel and Carving on the Coast: Three Decades of Change and Renewal
Lou-ann Ika'wega Neel
PART III. Changing Museums
>Let Indigenous Reign, by Ishmael Hope
Chapter 8. In the Spirit of Reconciliation: Rethinking Collections and the Act of Engagement at the Museum of Vancouver
Sharon Fortney
Chapter 9. The Museum Disappeared: Northwest Coast Art and the Object of Display
Karen Duffek, Peter Morin, and Karen Benbassat Ali
Chapter 10. From Behind-the-Scenes to the Front of the House: Here & Now: Native Artists Inspired at the Burke Museum
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse
Chapter 11. Woosh.Jee.Een, Pulling Together: Repatriation's Healing Tide
Lucy Fowler Williams, with contributions by Robert Starbard
PART IV. Beyond Art
>Thoughts on Formline, by Iljuuwaas Tyson Brown
Chapter 12. Soft Robes of Thundering Power: Mountain Goat Fiber Textiles of the Northwest Coast
Evelyn Vanderhoop
Chapter 13. Sayach'apis and the Naani (Grizzly Bear) Crest
Denise Nicole Green
Chapter 14. Tlingit Art
Ishmael Hope
Conclusion. Fifty Years Studying Northwest Coast Art: A Personal View
Aldona Jonaitis
Contributors
Index
