Colwell will share his personal journey to understand how repatriation has transformed both museums and tribes, along with the stories of four objects from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and how they were created, collected, and returned to their sources. This lecture presents Colwell’s new book, an unflinching insider’s view of the tangled debate over who owns the past. The repatriation controversy has grown in recent years as hundreds of tribes have used a landmark federal law to recover their looted heritage from American museums across the United States. He is the founding editor-in-chief of a popular online magazine about anthropological discoveries and thinking.įive decades ago, Native American leaders launched a crusade against museums to reclaim their sacred objects and to rebury their kin. His work has been highlighted in such venues as the New York Times, The Guardian, and Indian Country Today. He has published 10 books, most recently Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture (University of Chicago Press). Chip Colwell is Senior Curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
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