"What are you going out there in a canoe for? Have you gone Hollywood?"
-a Faroe Islands whaler questioning a Makah
(Sullivan, 2000: 66)
"The canoe is a tool that also happens to be the symbol of an entire culture…it has been called
‘the single most important aspect of Northwest coast culture.’"
(Sullivan 2000: 53)
Table of Contents
I.
From Unearthing to Rebuilding the Past
II.
Looking Indian:
Environmentalism and Native Rights
III.
Defining Identity Through Past Tradition:
Whaling and the Makah Community
IV.
Defining Identity Through Things of the Past:
the Makah Cultural and Research Center
V.
Removing the Museum:
Employing Objects of the Past in the Present
VI.
Making the Past Present
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