nohwike' bágowa museum, white mountain apache tribe abstract As a legacy of the colonialist history of anthropology, dominant-society museums hold large collections of material objects from Native American communities. At the same time, the cultural and historical knowledge necessary to meaningfully exhibit those objects largely exists in the objects' communities of origin. Non-native museums have utilized indigenous consultants to deepen the interpretive value of their exhibitions, but with limited reciprocity to source communities. At the same time, tribal communities have adopted and adapted the Western concept of the museum to meet heritage preservation and perpetuation goals, but largely without the wealth of material objects held by nontribal institutions. This article examines this history through the example of the White Mountain Apache Tribe. It concludes with a call for dominant-society museums to move beyond the current model of tribal collaboration in exhibit development to one of full reciprocity, in which both tribal and nontribal museums and communities fully contribute to and benefit from exhibitions. [
From 2010 to 2013, the White Mountain Apache Tribe and the University of Arizona, with funding from the National Science Foundation, hosted the Western Apache Ethnography and Geographic Information Science Research Experience for Undergraduates. Designed to foster practical skills and scholarly capacities for future resource managers and anthropologists, this field school introduced Apache and non-native undergraduate students to ethnographic field research and GIS tools. Building upon the extensive arrays of geographical, cultural, and historical data that are available for Western Apache territory, field school students engaged in community-based participatory research with Western Apache elders and tribal natural and heritage resource personnel to contribute to the Western Apache tribes' efforts to document their cultural histories, traditional ecological knowledge, local understanding of geography, and issues of historic and contemporary resource management. This essay reviews the program and traces how student alumni have incorporated skills and perspectives gained into their subsequent academic and professional work.
Each fall from 1984 to 2007 a group of Lutheran pastors in Texas gathered at the ranch of another pastor to hunt white-tailed deer during the opening week of the annual hunting season. Called “Nimrod” after the ancient Babylonian king identified in the Bible as “a mighty hunter before the Lord” (Genesis 10:9), also an acronym for “November Invitational Ministerial Recreational Outdoor Diversion,” the event provided opportunities for recreation and fellowship for active and retired clergy, centered around the hunt. To the casual observer hunting is not an immediately obvious pastime to bring Christian ministers together. This ethnographic study examines the place of hunting within Christian theology and explores how the annual deer hunting retreat in fact created an ideal opportunity for clergy to escape from the social constraints of their professional lives while engaging in the deeply meaningful practice of harvesting wild game.
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