Curator of the exhibition entitled Americans at the National Museum of the American Indian discusses the exhibition about the pervasiveness of the image of the American Indian in popular culture and the controversy surrounding the validity of artist Jimmy Durham's Cherokee identity.
Duration: 58:51.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, 2017, pp. 61-86
Description
Authors examines the (neo)colonial narratives present the English print media coverage of the Glenbow Museum’s 1988 exhibit The Spirit Sings. The exhibit, a headliner of the 1988 Winter Olympic Arts Festival in Calgary, is often considered to be the “catalyst for Canada's Task Force on Museums and First Peoples (1992).”