Representation in Museums

Big Brains podcast: Correcting History: Native Americans Tell Their Own StoriesHow scholars helped the Field Museum in Chicago rethink its representation of Indigenous peoples

Exhibition upends traditional representations of Native American culturesExhibition upends traditional Native American representations

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Patricia Marroquin Norby Is Bringing a Native Perspective to the MetWhen the nation’s foremost museum got serious about the nation’s first inhabitants, they needed an Indigenous lodestar. They found one in Norby, its first curator of Native American art.

Relationships Carved From Clay Bring New Partners to MuseumsIn a sea change, artisans and leaders from Native communities were invited to be curators, offering a window onto the intangible and personal dimensions of Pueblo pottery.

A Museum Takes a New, Unvarnished Look at a MassacreA revised exhibit about the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado drew heavily on the views of members of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes.

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