PANEL 2
Discussion and Q&A began at Noon on Friday October 22, 2021.
PANEL QUESTIONS
How has NAGPRA legislation impacted the development of legal processes for repatriation and other forms of reparation? In what ways must North American museum practitioners also grapple with questions of empire and slavery in thinking about meaningful processes of repair?
PANELISTS
Discussion and Q&A, Moderated by Gwen Gordon (Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton)
Jane Anderson (New York University)
Wayne Modest (Research Center for Material Culture, Museum Volkenkunde)
Ann Kakaliouras (Whittier College)
Rachel Watkins (American University)
The mural depicted in the title image is “Decolonize And Chill/We Are Still Here”, a mural artwork by artist and community activist Jaque Fragua from the Pueblo of Jemez, one of the federally recognized tribes in New Mexico, as well as Ishi Glinsky and Shepard Fairey. It is art created out of an on-going decolonizing space and project called Indian Alley, in Los Angeles, CA. The photograph of the artwork is by wiredforlego (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Settler Colonialism, Slavery, and the Problem of Decolonizing Museums 