Speaking of the people: Authenticating representations of Native American culture

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

5 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

11/25/2008

Category :

Political science

Sub category :

Social sciences

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Summary :

Introduction - Archaeologists and Native Americans.
The Native American populace of the United States.
The anthropological text 'Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache People'.
1. The authors respect for the knowledge and customs that the Western Apaches possess.
2. The lack of cultural knowledge.
3. A solution to the lack of knowledge.
4. The humanity of the personal experience and the relationship to the land.
The cultural partitions of perspective.
1. David J. Weber's What Caused the Pueblo Revolt of 1680?
2. The tension between the Pueblo and Franciscan missionaries.
3. Misinformed and carefree non-Native American scholars.
Reparations.
1. The development of dialogue.
2. Respect of the Western Apache people.
3. Appropriate compensation.
Conclusion.

Abstract

Archaeologists and native Americans have an interesting relationship in this present day. They are both contesting for the same properties (except for the "property" of the native american oral tradition). In this nation of immigrants, native american culture and peoples have long been an interest to all Americans. While the early colonists frequently collected native american relics and returned them to Europe, Anglo-Americans in later centuries began collecting them in domestic museums and discussing them in american anthologies. In the earliest contacts, and even until this present day, native american culture is not receiving thorough understanding, but it is often marketable and subject to generalizations. Consequently, the question persists, who has rights to these artifacts? Moreover, who has the greatest knowledge of these artifacts?