{"id":37,"date":"2018-04-10T14:54:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T14:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/indians-in-art-museums\/?p=37"},"modified":"2018-04-29T17:48:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T17:48:30","slug":"but-we-dont-have-any-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/indians-in-art-museums\/2018\/04\/10\/but-we-dont-have-any-bones\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
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James Luna (Puyukitchum\/Ipai\/Mexican American Indian),\u00a0Artifact Piece, Installation, 1986.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BUT WE DON’T HAVE ANY BONES<\/h2>\n

how to steal a canoe (audio<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Repatriation is\u00a0central to the reclamation of and reconnection to many Native peoples’ ancestors and their cultural heritage. However, I find it deeply troubling that the immediate response to “I’m thinking about Native American artistic practice and its status in a contemporary arts museum” is to show me an “unidentified” basket or bowl. this indicates that the first thing many people think of when talking about Indians are dead ones.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in reading about histories of repatriation, looting, or the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act, see: Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains?,<\/em>\u00a0edited by Devon A. Mihesuah (Choctaw). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.<\/p>\n

Dumont Jr., Clayton W. (Klamath). “Navigating a Colonial Quagmire: Affirming Native Lives in the Struggle to Defend Our Dead.”<\/a>\u00a0In\u00a0Accomplishing NAGPRA: Perspectives on the\u00a0Intent, Impact, and Future of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act<\/em>, edited by Sangita Chari and Jaime M.N. Lavallee, 239. Corvallis:\u00a0Oregon State University Press, 2013.<\/p>\n

Gould, D. Rae (Nipmuc). “NAGPRA, CUI and Institutional Will.<\/a>” In The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property,<\/em>\u00a0edited by\u00a0<\/i>Jane Andersen and Haidy Geismar.<\/p>\n

LEARN ABOUT LIVING INDIANS.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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