Diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in all aspects of museums’ structure and programming are top issues in the field today – and in the overall arts/culture sector. Much has been written, from various perspectives, over several decades. Yet, a lack of diversity remains and exclusive practices and inequities persist in all types of museums.
A go-to resource for readers interested in learning about diversity and inclusion work in the field – past, present and future. This edited collection of the most important essays, speeches, and reports on these topics seeks to facilitate a much-needed intergenerational dialogue that builds on lessons from the past, broadens thinking about the many different facets of this complex work, and ignites inspiration for continuing to correct inequities across museums of all types, sizes, and locations.
In this book compiled and edited by Dr. Johnnetta Betch Cole, who has served as both director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and as the president of both historically Black colleges for women in the United States, Spelman College and Bennett College (a distinction she alone holds) and Laura Lott, president and CEO of the American Alliance of Museums, (the first woman to the lead the organization), thought leaders in the museum field present their research, analysis and work to answer some of the most challenge questions facing the museum field. Why do these problems persist? How can a new generation of museum leaders champion change to better represent the communities that museums strive to serve and engage? What can we learn from those who have been observing, experiencing, and writing about these issues? -- From back cover
Contents
Flies in the Buttermilk: Museums, Diversity, and the Will to Change / Lonnie G. Bunch III ; Museums, Racism, and the Inclusiveness Chasm / Carlos Tortolero ; Museums, Diversity, and Social Value / Johnnetta Betsch Cole ; Women's Locker Room Talk: Gender and Leadership in Museums / Kaywin Feldman ; Twin Threats: How Ignorance and Instrumentality Create Inequality and Injustice / Darren Walker ; The Leadership Imperative: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion as Strategy / Laura L. Lott ; History That Promotes Understanding in a Diverse Society / Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko ; Pipeline Is a Verb: Field Notes on the Spelman College Curatorial Studies Pilot Program / Andrea Barnwell Brownlee ; Museums and ADA at 25: Progress and Looking Ahead / Beth Bienvenu ; Catalyzing Inclusion: Steps toward Sustainability in Museums / Natanya Khashan ; It's Time to Stop and Ask "Why" / Lisa Sasaki ; Much Has Been Taken, but All Is Not Lost: The Restorative Promise of First-Voice Representation / Eduardo Diaz ; No Longer Hiding in Plain Sight / William Underwood Eiland ; The National Museum of the American Indian: Whence the "Art Object"? / W. Richard West Jr. ; Disability and Innovation: The Universal Benefits of Inclusive Design / Haben Girma ; Maybe This Time: A Personal Journey toward Racial Equity in Museums / Elaine Heumann Gurian ; Museum Musings: Inclusion Then and Now / Celine Shellman
Western Canada has figured historically as a focus point for new directions in human thought and action, migrations of the mind and body, and personal journeys of both a substantial and transcendental nature. The essays in Finding Directions West interrogate the meaning of those journeys, their reality, their memory, and their constructed identities within Western Canada itself. The book situates landscapes and peopled places in the West within the larger study of Western Canada and its transborder relationships. It draws scholars from a vareity of disciplines within history, from gender studies, to museum studies, to environmental history, in order to examine afresh Western Canada as a place for finding new directions in the human experience. -- From back cover
Contents
Partial List of Contents: Colonizer or Compatriot?: A Reassessment of Reveren John McDougall / Will Pratt ; "The Country Was Looking Wonderful": Insights on 1930s Alberta from the Travel Diary of Mary Beatrice Rundle / Sterling Evans ; Mountain Capitalists, Space, and Modernity at the Banff School of Fine Arts / PearlAnn Reichwein and Karen Wall
In 1795 the Hudson's Bay Company established Edmonton House and the North West Company Fort Augustus a few kilometres downstream from the present day city of Edmonton. Although both posts were moved several times, they operated side by side as the major administrative, trade, and provisioning centres on the North Saskatchewan River from 1795 to 1821, when the companies merged.
The post journals and district reports from Edmonton House for the period from 1806 to 1821 are reproduced verbatim in this volume. Long available only to researchers with access to the collections of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, these journals and district reports provide a detailed day-by-day account of the operations of Edmonton House during this crucial period. They provide direct insight into the Aboriginal, social, and economic history of the region, and new information on the foundation of the Red River settlement adn the struggle for control of the trade in the Athabasca region. -- From back cover
Contents
Edmonton House Post Journals, 1806-1921 ; District Reports, 1816-1821
During the 1820s, Edmonton House re-emerged as the headquarters of a much larger Saskatchewan trading District of the Hudson's Bay Company. Its fur-gathering larger hinterland extended from the southern edges of the boreal forest near present-day Westlock, Alberta, south to the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers, and from the confluence of the North and South Saskatchewan Rivers west to the Rocky Mountains - in short, virtually all of what is now central and southern Alberta, and parts of Saskatchewan and Montana.
[...]
The Bow River Expedition, 1822-1823
Seeking to expand the fur trade more completely into what is now southern Alberta, and northern Montana, the Hudson's Bay Company dispatched an expedition of officers and men up the South Saskatchewan River in 1822, with excursions to the Red Deer, Bow, and Oldman Rivers. Through circumstances, such as hostilities by certain Aboriginal groups and the scarcity of timber, persuaded the Company not to build a permanent post during this time, the journal of the expedition contains a wealth of information about the land and the people living on it. --From back cover
Contents
Edmonton House Post Journals, 1821-26 ; Edmonton District Reports, 1823-24 ; Bow River Expedition Journal ; Bow River District Reports
A collection of essays about reconciliation and anti-racism by Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors from across Canada.
Contents
Introduction / Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail; The importance of rivers / Carleigh Baker; Dropped, not thrown / Joanna Streetly; Drawing lines / Erika Luckert; Jawbreakers / Donna Kane; This many-storied land / Kamala Todd; The perfect tool / Zacharias Kunuk; To kill an Indian / Steven Cooper with Twyla Campbell; Two-step / Katherin Edwards; Echo / Carol Shaben; Mother tongues / Katherine Palmer Gordon; White Aboriginal woman / Rhonda Kronyk; Colonialism lived / Emma Larocque; Marking the page / Lorri Neilsen Glenn; Lost fires still burn / Carissa Halton; From Aha to AHO! / Antione Mountain; A conversation between Shelagh Rogers and the Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair.
This book examines the character and relevance of remembrance, inviting readers to think creatively and deeply about the ways that memories are transmitted, recorded, and distorted through time and space. Ranging from molecular genetics and astrophysics to law and Indigenous oral histories, the essays draw from a diverse group of contributors to capture different perspectives on memory. Reflecting upon memory in engaging and unexpected ways, this collection offers an interdisciplinary roadmap for exploring how, why, and when we remember. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction -- Healing through culture -- Ecological amnesia -- Climate tales -- Making ruins -- Timothy Findley's the wars -- Echoes across generations -- Reconciliation pole -- First light -- Corroboration -- Ships at sea -- Constructed futures -- Artistic silhouettes -- Material past -- Critical periods and early experience -- Releasing trauma -- A fishy story -- Reconstructing the past -- Documents of dissent -- Anthems -- In defence of forgetting -- Monuments in stone and colour -- Microcosmos -- Time, oral tradition, and technology -- Global 1918 -- Reweaving the past -- The digital shoebox -- Indigenous storytelling -- Self, lost and found.
A reference for BC Indigenous communities and museums, created by and for Indigenous people working in repatriation. -- From back cover
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Organizing a successful repatriation -- 3. Conducting research -- 4. Repatriation from the royal BC museum -- 5. Repatriation for other institutions -- 6. For institutions wishing to repatriate to Indigenous Peoples in BC -- 7. Case study: repatriation journey of the Haida Nation -- APPENDIX -- A. Glossary of terms -- B. Indigenous museums and cultural centres in Canada -- C. Organizational templates, procedures and examples -- D. Fundraising resouces -- E. Sample letters to museums -- F. Tips for planning for travel and transport -- G. Global museums with major indigenous collections from BC -- H. Resources on education in indigenous museology -- I. Frequently asked questions about repatriation -- J. Repatriation stories.
Includes blank letterhead, blank carbon copy letterhead, a Burwash Landing Walking Tour brochure, and a poem about the centennial of the ACC 1967 Yukon expedition written by Caroline Carver [printed email].
Includes blank letterhead, blank carbon copy letterhead, a Burwash Landing Walking Tour brochure, and a poem about the centennial of the ACC 1967 Yukon expedition written by Caroline Carver [printed email].
File consists of one draft outline and one final copy of a funding proposal for an exhibit titled Operation Bow-Athabasca, which was displayed at the Canmore Museum and Geoscience Centre in 2012. Exhibit pertains to geological surveying which was completed by staff of the Geological Survey of Canad…
Produced by Canmore Museum and Geoscience Centre, Roger MacQueen
Date Range
2010-2011
Physical Description
0.5 cm of textual records
Scope & Content
File consists of one draft outline and one final copy of a funding proposal for an exhibit titled Operation Bow-Athabasca, which was displayed at the Canmore Museum and Geoscience Centre in 2012. Exhibit pertains to geological surveying which was completed by staff of the Geological Survey of Canada between 1965 and 1967.
Notes
Draft outline in file is annotated with additional notes, possibly written by Ben Gadd
S37_37_57-83_107_112 - Indigenous related interviews and recordings, Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds. - 92 files:55 10.0 GB (10,750,816,567 bytes) - .wav and .mp3 V555_nf_13 - , Andy Russell wildlife/fishing, Andy Russell fonds. - 8 Files, 5 Folders: 538 GB (578,445,370,768 bytes) - .mov and .mp4 …
electronic record : 833 GB on 1 portable hard drive (.mov, .mp4, .wav, .mp3)
History / Biographical
Digitized analog films, sound recordings of various fonds
Scope & Content
S37_37_57-83_107_112 - Indigenous related interviews and recordings, Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds. - 92 files:55 10.0 GB (10,750,816,567 bytes) - .wav and .mp3
V555_nf_13 - , Andy Russell wildlife/fishing, Andy Russell fonds. - 8 Files, 5 Folders: 538 GB (578,445,370,768 bytes) - .mov and .mp4
V635_NF_3_Riding High with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies fonds. - 275 GB (295,844,115,591 bytes). - .mov, .mp4
File consists of two summit registers retrieved by Paul Zizka between 2019 and 2020. Includes Mt. Stephen summit register (Sept. 9, 1987 - Sept. ? 2020) and two pages from the Ringrose Peak summit register (July 28, 1990 - Aug. 2019).
File consists of two summit registers retrieved by Paul Zizka between 2019 and 2020. Includes Mt. Stephen summit register (Sept. 9, 1987 - Sept. ? 2020) and two pages from the Ringrose Peak summit register (July 28, 1990 - Aug. 2019).
Fonds consists of textual records, postcards, drawings and one photograph album pertaining to Mary (Molly) Wright Adams (1868-1909); transcripts of Molly's original letters which were compiled by Molly's sister, Catharine Elkin (nee Adams) between ca.1939 and 1941; and transcriptions of letters sen…
Some materials produced by Catharine (Adams) Elkin
Date Range
[ca.1844 - 1909]
[ca.1939 - 1944]
1980 - 1981
2014
Physical Description
21 cm of textual records -- 16 postcards -- 3 drawings -- 1 photograph album : 107 b&w photographs
History / Biographical
Mary Wright (Molly) Adams was born on 15 October 1868. in Ridgefield Connecticut. She was the third of five children born to Cornelia Ann Cook (1830-1902) and Daniel Lucius Adams (1814 - 1899) She died in Kobe, Japan on 23 January 1909 and was buried there.
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of textual records, postcards, drawings and one photograph album pertaining to Mary (Molly) Wright Adams (1868-1909); transcripts of Molly's original letters which were compiled by Molly's sister, Catharine Elkin (nee Adams) between ca.1939 and 1941; and transcriptions of letters sent between Molly's extended family members [including members of the Adams, Cook and Wright families], ca.1844 and 1866.
Textual records primarily consist of correspondence sent between Molly Adams and various friends and family members [ca.1891-1909].
Notes
Fonds consists of two series:
Series I : Correspondence [contains two sub-series: I / A : Molly Wright Adams ; I / B : Extended family]
Series II : Personal and collected records
File consists of one scanned image of the gravesite and tombstone of Mary "Molly" Wright Adams located in Kobe, Japan. Image was mailed to Colleen Skidmore from Marjorie Adams in 2016.
Scan produced by Marjorie Adams; original photographer unknown
Date Range
2016
Physical Description
1 paper print of scanned photograph
Scope & Content
File consists of one scanned image of the gravesite and tombstone of Mary "Molly" Wright Adams located in Kobe, Japan. Image was mailed to Colleen Skidmore from Marjorie Adams in 2016.
Notes
Image in file accompanied by original mailing envelope
File consists of scanned paper duplicates of materials donated in accession 2018.8685; includes scans of letters, one journal, postcards, planners and one album which belonged to Molly Wright Adams.
File consists of scanned paper duplicates of materials donated in accession 2018.8685; includes scans of letters, one journal, postcards, planners and one album which belonged to Molly Wright Adams.
Notes
Reference scans for file M555/I/A/3 materials not included
Series consists of hut registers produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between ca.1930-2020. Registers include entries from visitors to the huts, which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while staying at the huts; wildlife sightings; custodi…
Series consists of hut registers produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between ca.1930-2020. Registers include entries from visitors to the huts, which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while staying at the huts; wildlife sightings; custodial issues and updates; and related topics.
Series is separated at the sub-series level by individual huts:
M200 / IV / A : Abbot Pass Hut
M200 / IV / B : Elizabeth Parker Hut
M200 / IV / C : Wates-Gibson Hut
M200 / IV / D : A. O. Wheeler Hut
M200 / IV / E : Sydney Vallance (Fryatt) Hut
M200 / IV / F : Bow Hut
M200 / IV / G : Stanley Mitchell Hut
M200 / IV / H : Fay Hut
M200 / IV / I : Balfour Hut
M200 / IV / J : Peyto Hut/ Peter and Catharine Whyte Hut
M200 / IV / K : Elk Lakes Cabin
M200 / IV / L : Bon Echo Hut
M200 / IV / M : Bill Putnam / Fairy Meadows Hut
M200 / IV / N : Scott Duncan Hut
M200 / IV / O: Conrad Kain/Bugaboos Hut
M200 / IV / P: Neil Colgan Hut
M200 / IV / Q: Silver Spray Hut
M200 / IV / R: Asulkan Hut
M200 / IV / S: Mount Colin Hut
M200 / IV / T: Great Cairn Hut
M200 / IV / U: Other Huts [Registers]
Notes
See sub-series entries for chronological inventories of hut registers
Sub-series of hut registers from Abbot Hut produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between 1954 and 2017. Registers include entries from visitors to the huts which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while staying at the hut, wildlife sightings…
Abbot Pass Hut was built in 1922 and sits at an elevation of 2,926 meters. It is one of the highest structures in Canada. The hut was named after Philip Stanley Abbot who had died from a fall during the first known attempt to reach the summit of Mount Lefroy. The hut was a national historic site, but the hut was closed to visitors in 2018 due to the erosion of the slope beneath the hut. On June 30, 2022 Parks Canada officially removed Abbot Pass Hut, due to those environmental factors.
Scope & Content
Sub-series of hut registers from Abbot Hut produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between 1954 and 2017. Registers include entries from visitors to the huts which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while staying at the hut, wildlife sightings, custodial issues and updates, and related topics.
The sub-series is separated into individual hut registers, arranged by date:
M200 / IV / A / 1: Abbot Pass Hut register [1954 - 1960]
M200 / IV / A / 2: [Abbot Pass Hut Register 1954 - 1970]
M200 / IV / A / 3: [Abbot Pass Hut? loose register 1972 - 1974]
M200 / IV / A / 4: [Abbot] Pass Hut [register 1974 - 1978]
M200 / IV / A / 5: Abbot Hut [register 1979 - 1980]
M200 / IV / A / 6: [Abbot]'s Hut Registry [1980 - 1982]
M200 / IV / A / 7: [Abbot Pass Hut Register 1982 - 1983]
M200 / IV / A / 8: [Abbot Pass register 1983]
M200 / IV / A / 9: [Abbot Hut Register 1987]
M200 / IV / A / 10: Abbot's Hut Bible [register, 1988 - 1992]
M200 / IV / A / 11: Abbot Pass Hut 1992 - 93
M200 / IV / A / 12: "Abbot Pass Hut Log Book" Aug. 24, 1993 - July 20, 1995
M200 / IV / A / 13: Abbot Pass hut register Aug. 11, 1995 - July 30, 1996.
M200 / IV / A / 14: [Abbot Pass] hut register July 30, 1996 - May 4, 1997
M200 / IV / A / 15: "Abbot Pass Hut Register" June 26, 1997 - September 3, 1998
M200 / IV / A / 16: Abbot Pass Hut [1998- 2000]
M200 / IV / A / 17: Abbot Pass Sep 6, 2000 - July 26, 2002
M200 / IV / A / 18: Abbot Hut Register 2002 - 2003
M200 / IV / A / 19: Abbot Pass Aug 31, 2003 - Aug 20, 2005
M200 / IV / A / 20: Abbot Pass Register 2004 - 2007
M200 / IV / A / 21: Abbot Hut Register 2007 - 2009
M200 / IV / A / 22: [2011 Abbot Hut Register]
M200 / IV / A / 23: Abbot Hut Register [2012 - 2014]
M200 / IV / A / 24: Abbot Pass Hut Register [2014 - 2016]
M200 / IV / A / 25: Abbot Pass Hut Register, 2016 - 2017
M200 / IV / A / 26: [Abbot Pass Hut Register: 2017-2018]
The Alpine Club of Canada website:
https://www.alpineclubofcanada.ca/abbot-pass-hut/
The Government of Canada website:
https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/bc/yoho/culture/abbot