Discusses the history of American archaeology in conflict with Native Americans specifically the battle for Kennewick Man/The Ancient one and solutions to the conflict.
Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, vol. 23, no. 1, Autumn, 1983, pp. [1]-6
Description
Discusses conservation treatment methods using the following considerations: unresolved questions regarding legal ownership, potential for treatments to prejudice future treatment options and the analytical value, consideration of non-physical aspects.
Site contains links to Indigenous historical and contemporary material drawn from the Canadian Museum of Civilization's artifact and archival collections including thousands of photographs.
Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 31, no. 1, [Special Issue: Culture, Heritage, and Art], 2006, pp. 197-214
Description
Discusses the challenges associated with displaying historical objects in a gallery, such as the presentation of works from a non-Indigenous conception of artistic value.
Website explores the excavation, weaving techniques and conservation of basketry artifacts found on the banks of the Snoqualmie river. Includes audio, text and video.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, 1983, pp. 79-99
Description
Book reviews of:
Mat Hekid O Ju/When It Rains edited by Ofelia Zepeda.
The Navajo Nation by Peter Iverson.
Historic Hope Ceramics: The Thomas V. Keam Collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology, Harvard University by Edwin L. Wade and Lea S. McChesney.
The George Rogers Clark Adventure in the Illinois, and Selected Documents of the American Revolution at the Frontier Posts by Katherine Wagner Seineke.
Life Is With People: Household Organization of the Contemporary Southern Paiute Indians by Martha C.
Archaeologist Tim E.H. Jones is interviewed about the rock paintings found in northern Saskatchewan, many of which lie along the Churchill River System. Photographs: first page: a painting of Indians making rock paintings. Second page: two photos of paintings. Third page: a map and two rock paintings.
Northeast Historical Archaeology, vol. 35, no. 1, 2006, pp. 15-28
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Looks at the significance and use of wampum beads in the diplomatic process during the French and British periods at Fort Niagara. Shows beads found there were produced at Albany.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3/4, Decolonizing Archaeology, Summer/Fall, 2006, pp. 543-557
Description
Comments on the relationship between the site of the National Museum of the American Indian and cultural products on display, arguing that the Museum itself is an object of display.