Free Public Humanities Talk - Coming Home: How the Nez Perce Tribe Regained Their Cultural Heritage

Name: Free Public Humanities Talk - Coming Home: How the Nez Perce Tribe Regained Their Cultural Heritage
Start: 2024-10-24T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Red Cross Building At The Historic Reserve

Schedule

Thu Oct 24 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Red Cross Building At The Historic Reserve | Vancouver, WA

Belongings deeply important to tribal communities are often housed in museums far away from those communities. In this talk, hear the remarkable story of 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.