Cultural Empowerment Within Museums and Anthropology

By Dolly McRae

This book, Cultural Empowerment within Museums and Anthropology, was designed to give some practical suggestions for an improved relationship between Museums and the First Peoples of North America.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jul 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781329412231

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Cultural Empowerment Within Museums and Anthropology

Cultural Empowerment Within Museums and Anthropology

By Dolly McRae

Hope you benefit from this Anthropological paper.

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Cultural Empowerment within Museums and Anthropology

Copyright © 2014 by Dolly McRae

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McRae, Dolly, 1935-, author

Cultural empowerment within museums and anthropology / by

Dolly McRae. -- First edition.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-329-41223-1 (ebook)

1. Indians of North America--Museums. 2. Indians of North

America--Material culture I. Title.

Dedication

I would like to dedicate this book to my loving husband Kenneth and my amazing family.

--Dolly McRae, Hereditary Gitk’san Chief Lian, House of Ghusen, Fireweed Clan, Ba Anthropology, University of British Columbia

Acknowledgements

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my family and friends who have supported my efforts for many years. I would also like to thank all the people who host my readings and those who wrote great reviews about this book.

Cultural Empowerment Within Museums and Anthropology

Late Dr. Michael M. Ames, a Canadian academic and Professor of Anthropology of the department of Anthropology-sociology at UBC (left). Late Doreen Jensen, my good friend and a Gitk’san elder and scholar, regarded as an authority on Gitk’san Language, History and Culture, born in Kispiox, B.C. (right).

It was during my interview with Dr. Michael M. Ames in November of 1988 when he said something that put a name to what I have been striving for these last few years at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He was referring to an exhibit that was curated by two Musqueam women entitled Proud to be Musqueam. Although it was only a small photo exhibit, the contemporariness and the straight from the heart captions captured the hearts of the viewers! He said, The reception has always been very positive because it is low budget, simple technique for empowering people to tell their own story…Cultural Empowerment. That is what people are talking about. But what about Red Power, Self-government and Sovereignty? Somehow "Cultural