Coming Home: How the Nez Perce Tribe Regained Their Cultural Heritage
Description
Belongings deeply important to tribal communities are often housed in museums far away from those communities. In this talk, Trevor Bond will share how the Nez Perce Tribe and their allies purchased the largest and oldest collection of Nez Perce material culture—including dresses, shirts, and other regalia— from a museum over 2,000 miles away from their homeland.
In this hopeful story of cultural resiliency and making amends for past injustices, explore issues surrounding collection and curation, and the changing relationships between museums and Native communities. It’s a story that transcends the efforts of one Northwest tribe to show how many indigenous communities are reuniting with their heritage.
Trevor James Bond (he/him) is the director of the David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities and the associate dean for digital initiatives and special collections at the Washington State University Libraries. He is the author of Coming Home to Nez Perce Country: The Niimiipuu Campaign to Repatriate Their Exploited Heritage, a finalist for the 2022 Washington State Book Award for non-fiction.
This talk is offered as part of the Archives & Special Collections Distinguished Speaker Series, and the Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau, co-sponsored by Western Libraries Archives & Special Collections, Humanities Washington, and WWU’s departments of Anthropology, Art & Art History, and History.
Document Type
Event
Start Date
16-10-2024 4:00 PM
End Date
16-10-2024 5:30 PM
Location
Wilson Library (Bellingham (Wash.))
Resource Type
Moving image
Duration
00:42:10
Title of Series
Archives & Special Collections Speaker Series
Contributing Repository
Digital object made available by University Archives, Archives & Special Collections, Western Libraries, Western Washington University
Program
University Archives
Identifier
ascss_Bond_20241016
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Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Coming Home: How the Nez Perce Tribe Regained Their Cultural Heritage
Wilson Library (Bellingham (Wash.))
Belongings deeply important to tribal communities are often housed in museums far away from those communities. In this talk, Trevor Bond will share how the Nez Perce Tribe and their allies purchased the largest and oldest collection of Nez Perce material culture—including dresses, shirts, and other regalia— from a museum over 2,000 miles away from their homeland.
In this hopeful story of cultural resiliency and making amends for past injustices, explore issues surrounding collection and curation, and the changing relationships between museums and Native communities. It’s a story that transcends the efforts of one Northwest tribe to show how many indigenous communities are reuniting with their heritage.
Trevor James Bond (he/him) is the director of the David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities and the associate dean for digital initiatives and special collections at the Washington State University Libraries. He is the author of Coming Home to Nez Perce Country: The Niimiipuu Campaign to Repatriate Their Exploited Heritage, a finalist for the 2022 Washington State Book Award for non-fiction.
This talk is offered as part of the Archives & Special Collections Distinguished Speaker Series, and the Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau, co-sponsored by Western Libraries Archives & Special Collections, Humanities Washington, and WWU’s departments of Anthropology, Art & Art History, and History.