The Canmore Museum could be held up as an example of how small museums in Canada are evolving to better represent Canadian history by including Indigenous contributions and perspectives
. Community museums across the country are working to adapt programming and exhibitions so they are more representative of the Indigenous community. Where once visitors learned only about pioneer life, watching white interpreters churn butter or work in the blacksmith shop, they are now, in some museums, also meeting Indigenous elders and learning about what they faced when settlers came here.
Which points to the critical importance that these changes at settler-narrative museums should be guided by Indigenous people themselves – in the community and at the museum, with more diversified staff and board members, and volunteers. Repatriation – the return of Indigenous ancestral human remains and objects – must also be part of the process, say experts, including the BC Museums Association, which issued a repatriation call to action in May.
The Whyte Museum, out of necessity, began to focus more on nature and the outdoors – which is central to the institution’s raison d’être. “The pieces in our collection are reflective of that love of nature, that passion for this landscape,” Livingstone says. “So it’s not a leap at all; it makes sense. It’s in our DNA.”
Many of the photographs come from Banff Days, when Indigenous people would dress up in regalia, and some identifications have resulted from recognizing beadwork, or the regalia – even a horse.
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