Jamie Nord<\/p>\n
Since I am interested in antiquities and repatriation, the Society for American\u00a0<\/em>Archaeology<\/i>\u00a0scholarly journal in the Current Periodicals section of the library appealed to me.\u00a0 I discovered a research article titled, \u201cThe Inuvialut Living History Project\u201d that related to my research topic.\u00a0 It appeared in the September 2012, Volume 12, Number 4 issue.\u00a0 The contributing authors of the research article were Natasha Lyons, Kate Hennessy, Mervin Joe, Charles Arnold, Stephen Long, Albert Elias, and James Pokiak.\u00a0 The article details the 2009 collaborative project between the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s Artic Studies Center and the Inuvialuit indigenous community in the Canadian Western Arctic.\u00a0 The team of anthropologists and museum officials sought a way to make the MacFarlane Collection of Inuvialuit ethnographic objects available to the tribe without physically returning them.\u00a0 The collection was not \u201celigible for repatriation\u201d under NAGPRA, since the community resides in Canada.\u00a0 The cultural objects were acquired by Hudson Bay\u2019s trader Roderick MacFarlane while operating a fur trade post in the 1860\u2019s. \u00a0The team collected data of cultural knowledge, expert knowledge, and deeply held opinions and attitudes through in-depth interviews with Inuvialuit elders.\u00a0 As a result of the process of this action research, the team launched a website www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca<\/a> as a form of \u201cdigital repatriation.\u201d\u00a0 The article concedes that a limitation of this project culmination is that internet access is not universal.\u00a0 However, the project included a trip for a few Inuvialuit community members to the Arctic Studies Center, so they were able to view and reconnect with their cultural objects.\u00a0 The team expressed that they believed the outcome to be an overall success but reported another challenge was obtaining meaningful feedback from the Inuvialuit community.\u00a0 I found the results of this research to be less than inspiring.\u00a0 In my opinion, a “virtual exhibit” does not offer the same cultural significance or value in a community.\u00a0 It is difficult to believe a\u00a0 website could compensate for the lack of repatriation of their cultural objects.<\/p>\n Natasha Lyons, Kate Hennessy, Mervin Joe, Charles Arnold, Stephen Long, Albert Elias, and James Pokiak.\u00a0 “The Inuvialut Living History Project.”\u00a0\u00a0Society for American Archaeology.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>September 2012, Volume 12, Number 4 issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jamie Nord Since I am interested in antiquities and repatriation, the Society for American\u00a0Archaeology\u00a0scholarly journal in the Current Periodicals section of the library appealed to me.\u00a0 I discovered a research article titled, \u201cThe Inuvialut Living History Project\u201d that related to my research topic.\u00a0 It appeared in the September 2012, Volume 12, Number 4 issue.\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}