Museum pieces : toward the indigenization of Canadian museums / Ruth B. Phillips.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

part 1. Confrontation and contestation. Undoing the settler museum : showing off and showing up -- "Arrow of truth" : the Indians of Canada pavilion at Expo 67, with Sherry Brydon -- Moment of truth : The Spirit Sings as critical event and the exhibition inside it -- APEC at the Museum of Anthropology : the politics of site and the poetics of sight bite.

part 2. Re-disciplining the museum. Exclusions and inclusions : authenticity, sacrality, and possession -- How museums marginalize : naming domains of inclusion and exclusion -- Fielding culture : dialogues between art history and anthropology -- Disappearing acts : traditions of exposure, traditions of enclosure, and the sacrality of Onkwehonwe medicine masks -- Global travels of a Mi'kmaq coat : colonial legacies, repatriation, and the new cosmopolitanism.

part 3. Working it out. Indigenizing exhibitions : experiments and practices -- Making space : First Nations artists, the national museums, and the Columbus Quincentennial (1992) -- Cancelling white noise : Gerald McMaster's Savage Graces (1994) -- Threads of the Land at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (1995) -- Toward a dialogic paradigm : new models of collaborative curatorial practice -- Inside-out and outside-in : re-presenting Native North America at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and The National Museum of the American Indian (2003-2004).

part 4. Second museum age. Working with hybridity -- From harmony to antiphony : the Indigenous presence in a (future) Portrait Gallery of Canada -- Modes of inclusion : Indigenous art at the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario -- Digital (r)evolution of museum-based research -- "Learning to feed off controversies" : meeting the challenges of translation and recovery in Canadian museums.