Naamiwan's drum : the story of a contested repatriaton of Anishinaabe artefacts / Maureen Matthews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matthews, Maureen Anne, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Winnipeg. Anthropology Museum--Case studies.

University of Winnipeg.

Manitoba Museum--Case studies.

Manitoba Museum.

Ojibwa Indians--Museums--Manitoba--Case studies.

Ojibwa Indians.

Ojibwa Indians--Manitoba--Antiquities--Case studies.

Ojibwa Indians--Material culture--Manitoba--Case studies.

Museums--Acquisitions--Manitoba--Case studies.

Museums.

Museums and Indigenous peoples--Manitoba--Case studies.

Museums and Indigenous peoples.

Cultural property--Repatriation--Manitoba--Case studies.

Cultural property.

Cultural property--Protection--Manitoba--Case studies.

Drum--Manitoba--Case studies.

Drum.

Antiquities.

Cultural property--Protection.

Cultural property--Repatriation.

Museums and Indians.

Museums--Acquisitions.

Material culture.

Manitoba--Antiquities--Case studies.

Manitoba.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xi, 325 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Naamiwan's Drum follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. This drum, and forty other artefacts, were given away by a Canadian museum to an American Anishinaabe group that had no family or community connections to the collection. Many years passed before the drum was returned to the family and only half of the artefacts were ever returned to the museum."-- Provided by publisher.

"Maureen Matthews takes us through this astonishing set of events from multiple perspectives, exploring community and museum viewpoints, visiting the ceremonial group leader in Wisconsin, and finally looking back from the point of view of the drum. The book contains a powerful Anishinaabe interpretive perspective on repatriation and on anthropology itself. Containing fourteen beautiful colour illustrations, Naamiwan's Drum is a compelling account of repatriation as well as a cautionary tale for museum professionals."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Omishoosh : a visit to the museum

3. Animacy : linguistic considerations

4. Dewe'igan : repatriation

5. Personhood : wiikaan and artefact

6. Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge : Ojibwe advocacy and revitalization

7. Repatriation : cultural rights and the construction of meaning

8. Nelson Owen : mitigwakik homecoming

9. Agency and artefacts : new theoretical approaches

10. Repatriating agency : an agency analysis of repatriation

Appendix A: Timeline

Appendix B: Ojibwe language notes

Appendix C: Anishinaabemowin glossary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-305) and index.

ISBN:

9781442650152

144265015X

9781442628267

144262826X

OCLC:

950450590