We Are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence

• Main Author: Edited by Gerald T. Conaty (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Athabasca University Press 2015
• Subjects: Humanities; siksika; First Nations; Elders; aboriginal ceremonies; ceremonial bundles; kainai; sacred bundles
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In 1990, Gerald Conaty was hired as senior curator of ethnology at the Glenbow Museum, with the particular mandate of improving the museum's relationship with Aboriginal communities. That same year, the Glenbow had taken its first tentative steps toward repatriation by returning sacred objects...