Restoring Relationships: Connecting Nunatsiavummiut to Their (In)tangible Cultural Heritage throughout the World

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Settler colonialism is a disruption of Indigenous relationships. As a tool of settler colonialism, archaeology and collecting in particular have caused a disruption of relationships between Indigenous people, their land, their (in)tangible cultural heritage (Gray 2022), their Ancestors, and their pasts, presents, and futures. Over the last 500 years, many archaeologists, academics, tourists, missionaries, and government officials have collected Inuit (in)tangible heritage and Ancestors without Inuit consent. They are now housed in institutions all over the world without applying Inuit understandings of care, love, and respect. In this presentation we discuss how this violent practice has disrupted many different kinds of relationships, as well as projects we work on in collaboration with the Nunatsiavut Government and Nunatsiavummiut communities to work towards restoring those relationships.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 40286.0