Section III.

MUSEUM & ON-SITE CONSIDERATIONS

Chapter 1. Museum Perspectives from Within: A Native View by Lynne Harlan (Cherokee)

Museum collections and research in those collections can be daunting, overwhelming and confusing, for no two museums are exactly alike. The normal difficulties of working with museum collections are compounded by enormous emotional and spiritual issues for Native American researchers. In attempting to address these problems, comprehensive inclusion of the spiritual concerns of Native people and comprehensive knowledge of museums are both needed, and must be pursued as extensively as possible within the limits of time and space.