Report - 1885 on the north-western tribes of the Dominion of Canada
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Author/Creator
Committee on North-Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Horatio Hale
Description
"Reports on the physical characters, languages, industrial and social condition of the North-western tribes of the Dominion of Canada," focuses on Blackfoot, Cree and Ojibwe/Ojibway, 1885 era.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Fall, 1997, pp. 605-620
Description
Argues that in the future culture will be a means of differentiating peoples, rather than race and that "authentic" cultural artifacts will become valuable commodities.
Documentary on the last surviving Yahi who walked out of the bush into a northern California town in 1911 and spent the last four years of his life at the Museum of Anthropology in San Francisco.
Duration: 56:43.
Compares testimonies of Drs. Sheila Robinson and Wayne Suttles in the Heiltsuk herring roe fisheries case attempting to show how scholarship can manipulate histories.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, 1997, pp. 163-181
Description
Provides an historical overview of the history of collection, display, and interpretation of material culture in museums. The article also summarizes contemporary opinions of California Aboriginal peoples on museum activities.