Art and Law
“People Across the Globe Want Their Cultural Heritage Back. Canada May Offer a Blueprint for How to Get There”
“A proposed law would mobilize a national strategy to help Indigenous communities reclaim cultural heritage objects at home and abroad.”
A mask of the Kwakiutl, a native American clan on the West coast of Canada on display in the Humboldt Box museum in Berlin. Photo: JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images.
An additional article on the Cranmer Potlatch of 1921 from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, June 8, 2018. That article closes with the following important questions:
Ask yourself:
Question 1:
What would you want to pass down to future generations?
Question 2:
What kind of cultural heritage is important to you and your community?
Question 3:
What role can museums play to help preserve and protect heritage?