{"id":35,"date":"2018-04-05T14:53:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T14:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/indians-in-art-museums\/?p=35"},"modified":"2018-04-29T17:57:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T17:57:39","slug":"not-the-same-as-decolonization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/indians-in-art-museums\/2018\/04\/05\/not-the-same-as-decolonization\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-162\" style=\"width: 937px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-162\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/indians-in-art-museums\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/241\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-24-at-12.21.54-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"937\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/indians-in-art-museums\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/241\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-24-at-12.21.54-PM.png 937w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/indians-in-art-museums\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/241\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-24-at-12.21.54-PM-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/indians-in-art-museums\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/241\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-24-at-12.21.54-PM-768x511.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/indians-in-art-museums\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/241\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-24-at-12.21.54-PM-144x96.png 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 937px) 100vw, 937px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentmonkman.com\">Kent Monkman<\/a> (Cree).\u00a0East vs. West, 2011. Acrylic on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>NOT THE SAME AS DECOLONIZATION<\/h1>\n<p>Tuck, Eve and Yang, Wayne K. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/indians-in-art-museums\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/241\/2018\/03\/Decolonization-is-not-a-metaphor.pdf\">Decolonization is not a metaphor.<\/a>&#8221; In\u00a0<em>Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education &amp; Society<\/em>, vol. 1, no. 1 (2012).<\/p>\n<p>True decolonization is not about using the right words. True decolonization means repatriation of land. Museums are inherently colonial institutions, built on Indigenous land. For these reasons, museums will not be decolonized.<\/p>\n<p>Kassim, Sumaya. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/mediadiversified.org\/2017\/11\/15\/the-museum-will-not-be-decolonised\/\">The museum will not be decolonised<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Media Diversified\u00a0<\/em>(2017).<\/p>\n<p>Kassim discusses her experience in a project designed to &#8220;confront history in new and challenging ways&#8221; at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in Britain. Although Britain&#8217;s colonial past and present are different from those of the United States and Canada, her reflection\u00a0is incisive and useful for thinking\u00a0through the appropriation of decolonial language and the status of a contemporary museum within that landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOT THE SAME AS DECOLONIZATION Tuck, Eve and Yang, Wayne K. &#8220;Decolonization is not a metaphor.&#8221; In\u00a0Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education &amp; Society, vol. 1, no. 1 (2012). True decolonization is not about using the right words. True decolonization means repatriation of land. Museums are inherently colonial institutions, built on Indigenous land. 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