Sharing Knowledge and Cultural Heritage: First Nations of the Americas : Studies in Collaboration with Indigenous Peoples from Greenland, North and South America

Sharing Knowledge & Cultural Heritage (SK&CH), First Nations of the Americas, testifies to the growing commitment of museum professionals in the twenty-first century to share collections with the descendants of people and communities from whom the collections originated. Thanks to collection histories and the Documenting of relations with particular indigenous communities it is well known that until as recently as the 1970s museum doors – except for a handful of cases – were shut to indigenous peoples. This volume is the result of an ‘expert meeting’ held in November 2007, at the National Museum of Ethnology (NME) in Leiden, the Netherlands. Since then SK&CH projects have developed. The NME invited leading indigenous as well as non-native professional experts in the field, from the America’s and Europe to explore and discuss case studies based on fieldwork, collecting material culture and/or work with indigenous communities in Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, North America and Central and South America. Foreword : From Consultation To Collaboration / Ann Fienup-riordan -- Introduction / Cunera Buijs And Laura Van Broekhoven -- Related Collections : Sharing East Greenlandic Material Culture And Photographs / Cunera Buijs -- Curators, Collections, And Inuit Communities : Case Studies From The Arctic / Bernadette Driscoll Engelstad -- Speaking Images : Digital Repatriation Of The Jette Bang Photo Collection To Greenland / Leise Johnsen -- Sharing Knowlege And Cultural Heritage / Jarich Oosten -- The Repatriation Of Greenland's Cultural Heritage From Denmark To Greenland / Aviâja Rosing Jakobsen -- The Greenland Collections : Repatriation As A Starting Point For New Partnerships / Daniel Thorleifsen -- Collaborations With Native Peoples In The American Southwest And Midwest : 1967-2007 / Duane Anderson -- Conservation's Role In Building Relationships With Source Communities / Farideh Fekrsanati -- Leiden Links And Liaisons : Opportunities And Constraints In Sharing Knowledge On Dutch Museum Collections With North American Cultures Of Origin / Pieter Hovens -- A Place For Things To Be Alive : Best Practices For Cooperation That Respects Indigenous Knowledge / Clifford Crane Bear & Lea M. Zuyderhoudt -- Yesterday's Knowledge, Tomorrow's Future : Setting Up Community Consultations At The Nme, Leiden / Laura Van Broekhoven -- Cultural Centers In The Amerindian Villages In Southern Suriname / Eithne B. Carlin, Samoe Schelts, Marius Merenke -- Sharing Cultural Heritage : Amazonian Feather-work In European Museum Collections / Andreas Schlothauer -- Afterword : 'nothing Is Impossible' : A Discussion In Leiden About Museums And Source Communities / Laura Peers. Editors, Laura Van Brockoven, Cunera Buijs, Pieter Hovens. Includes Bibliographical References. Sharing Knowledge and Cultural Heritage (SK&CH): First Nations of the Americas testifies to the growing commitment of museum professionals in the twenty-first century to share collections with the descendants of people and communities from whom the collections originated. Thanks to collection histories and the documenting of relations with particular indigenous communities, it is well known that until as recently as the 1970s, museum doors - except for a handful of cases - were shut to indigenous peoples. This volume is the result of an "expert meeting" held in November 2007 at the National Museum of Ethnology (NME) in Leiden, the Netherlands. Since then SK&CH projects have developed. The NME invited leading indigenous as well as non-native professional experts in the field from the Americas and Europe to explore and discuss case studies based on fieldwork, collecting material culture and/or work with indigenous communities in Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, North America and Central and South America. Sharing Knowledge & Cultural Heritage (SK & CH), First Nations of the Americas, testifies to the growing commitment of museum professionals in the twenty-first century to share collections with the descendants of people and communities from whom the collections originated. Thanks to collection histories and the documenting of relations with particular indigenous communities, it is well known that until as recently as the 1970s, museum doors - except for a handful of cases - were shut to indigenous peoples. This volume is the result of an ""expert meeting"" held in November 2007 at the National M