ROV PANEL -ALICE KEHOE - American Indians and Anthropology

Abstract

In the later nineteenth century as anthropology became a discipline, anthropologists worked with First Nations to record their histories and customs, and save material objects, all likely to disappear under dire living conditions on the new reservations, and the policy of forcing Anglo ways upon Indian people. Descendants of these earlier collaborators with anthropologists today use the ethnographies and museum collections to restore what was lost during the repression era.