"Red Man's Burden": the politics of inclusion in museum settings.

The interactions of two distinct groups, broadly defined as Native American populations and individuals associated with the museum profession, primarily anthropologists, have fueled countless studies, manuscripts, films, and articles. (1) The contact, negotiations, and legal entanglements of these constituents and their varied interests over the past century are commonly characterized by oppositional social mores and strategies.

Typically, Indigenous knowledge is perceived as subjective and restricted while Western knowledge is seen as scientific, objective, and free of restrictions. ...

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