THE CHANGING PRESENTATION OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN: MUSEUMS AND NATIVE CULTURES

THE CHANGING PRESENTATION OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN: MUSEUMS AND NATIVE CULTURES W. Richard West, Jr. (Washington DC: National Museum of the American Indian, 2004), 119 pages.

The Changing Presentation of the American Indian is a collection of selected papers presented at the 1995 symposium held at the National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center (NMAI), in New York City. The subject of that day and of this book is a critique of representations of American Indians and American Indian culture in North American museums, and an analysis of alternative models that incorporate the American Indian point of view in organizing...