Oli Casta帽on Villa | 2025 I.S. Symposium
狈补尘别:听Oli Casta帽on Villa
罢颈迟濒别:听Indigenous Language Work and Pacific Northwest Coast Museums & Cultural Centers
惭补箩辞谤:听Anthropology
惭颈苍辞谤:听Museum Studies
笔补迟丑飞补测:听Museum & Archival Studies
础诲惫颈蝉辞谤蝉:听Beth Derderian; Zareen Thomas
The rise of language advocacy and interest in language as intangible heritage has produced a small body of literature about the intersections between language and museums. Previous research has shown that museums can engage with language advocacy through language exhibitions, archival research and documentation, and other engaging language-based programming. This research has not yet applied multi-sited ethnography, however, to examine its use within decolonizing contexts. My work engages with this methodology and theory, focusing on how Linda Tuhiwai Smith鈥檚 Indigenous Projects apply to language work encountered through three museums and/or cultural centers. My findings indicate a broad range of ways that these institutions decide and communicate ideas about language, as well as ways in which they use language to contextualize other educational focuses regarding Indigeneity.
Posted in Symposium 2025 on May 1, 2025.
