Preserving What Is Valued: Museums, Conservation, and First Nations

Preserving What Is Valued: Museums, Conservation, and First NationsPreserving What Is Valued explores the concept of preserving heritage. It presents the conservation professions code of ethics and discusses four significant contexts embedded in museum conservation practice: science, professionalization, museum practice, and the relationship between museums and Native American peoples. Clavir argues that museum practices are historically grounded and represent values that are not necessarily held by the originators

She also identifies and explains frequently depicted figures and objects

the mysteries of morel mushrooms and tips on where to find them

Sibbeston played an instrumental role during a critical moment in Northwest Territories politics

this edition includes seven new essays which argue that museums and anthropologists must contextualize and critique themselves--that they must analyze and critique the social

land claims

"In the Northwest Coast cosmos

This short story collection mixing sci-fi with First Nations myths and contemporary politics highlights prolific writer Taylor’s formidable talents across genres

and stewardship over land and resources

and shopping baskets carried Euro-American styles and concepts into aboriginal communities

illustrations and a glossary

In unsettling the conventions that have shaped the idea of Northwest Coast Native art

he begins to understand that he is much more connected to Barbeau than he originally suspected