Displaying truth and reconciliation: experiences of engagement between Alberni Indian Residential School survivors and museum professionals curating the Canadian History Hall

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dc.contributor.authorClements, Bradley A.
dc.contributor.supervisorWalsh, Andrea N.
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-07T16:33:09Z
dc.date.available2018-09-07T16:33:09Z
dc.date.copyright2018en_US
dc.date.issued2018-09-07
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Anthropologyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe re-curated Canadian History Hall (CHH) opened at the Canadian Museum of History (CMH) in Gatineau, Québec, on July 1st, 2017, becoming the first Canadian national narrative to exhibit the history, experiences, and aftermath of Canada’s genocidal Indian Residential School (IRS) system. Through interviews and participant observation, this case study considers experiences of CHH curatorial engagements between Alberni IRS Survivors and museum professionals. Their experiences illustrate practical challenges, structural limitations, and complementary interests of Western museums and Indigenous source communities attempting to collaboratively curate difficult history. Despite having limited capacities for indigenization or decolonization, this thesis demonstrates that museums like the CMH can be complicated but beneficial partners for some Indigenous source communities and their anti-colonial engagements with Canadian society.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/10040
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectMuseum exhibitsen_US
dc.subjectNational museumsen_US
dc.subjectCuratorsen_US
dc.subjectCanadian Museum of Historyen_US
dc.subjectCanadian History Hallen_US
dc.subjectIndian Residential Schoolsen_US
dc.subjectAlberni Indian Residential Schoolen_US
dc.subjectCollaborative curationen_US
dc.subjectExhibit case studyen_US
dc.subjectChildren's arten_US
dc.subjectCanadian heritageen_US
dc.titleDisplaying truth and reconciliation: experiences of engagement between Alberni Indian Residential School survivors and museum professionals curating the Canadian History Hallen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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