Digital Repatriation: Virtual Museum Partnerships with Indigenous Peoples
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The University of Texas and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian have had experience working together on virtual museum projects that bring indigenous people to the museum for the purpose of “digitally repatriating” important cultural items. The initial virtual museum project provided a strategy for cultural responsive teaching in American Indian schools. They also provided a forum for cultural revitalization and cultural collaboration. The university and the museum are currently developing proposals to further develop the digital repatriation concept to include more tribal community participation international indigenous participation.
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Museums and restorative justice: heritage, repatriation and cultural education
Moira G. Simpson is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences at the University of South Australia. She has written extensively on the subjects of museums, indigenous cultural politics and repatriation. Her publications include Making Representations: Museums in the Post-Colonial Era and Museums and Repatriation. Her current research interests relate to the care and protec...
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