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Naamiwan's drum : the story of a contested repatriation of Anishinaabe artefacts

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    2017
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    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. 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. Winner of the 2017 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fiction. 2016.

    Original Publisher: London : University of Toronto Press, [2016], Toronto, Center for Equitable Library Access
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781442628267, 9780616953174, 0616953178