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In the pages of this beautifully illustrated volume is the story of aneffort to build a bridge between museums and source communities inhopes of establishing stronger, more sustaining relationships betweenthe two and spurring change in prevailing museum policies. Theexperience of negotiating the tension between a museum’sinstitutional protocol described by both the authors and by Blackfootcontributors to the volume was transformative. Museums seek to preserveobjects for posterity. However, the emotional and spiritual power ofobjects does not vanish with the death of those who created them. ForBlackfoot people today, these shirts are a living presence, one thatevokes a sense of continuity and inspires pride in Blackfoot culturalheritage.

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Laura Peers is interested in the meanings thatheritage objects hold for Indigenous peoples today and in relationshipsbetween museums and Indigenous peoples. Her publications includeMuseums and Source Communities (with Alison K. Brown), ""Ceremoniesof Renewal: Visits, Relationships and Healing in the MuseumSpace,"" and This Is Our Life: Haida Material Heritage andChanging Museum Practice (with Cara Krmpotich). Alison K.Brown’s research addresses the ways in which artifactsand photographs can be used to think about colonialism and itslegacies. Before joining the Department of Anthropology at theUniversity of Aberdeen in 2005, where she is a senior lecturer andco-director (with Nancy Wachowich) of the Northern Colonialism:Historical Connections, Contemporary Lives program, she was ResearchManager for Human History at Glasgow Museums.

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