"Diba Jimooyung: Telling Our Story." Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture and Lifeways, Saginaw Chippewa Reservation, Mount Pleasant, Mich. http://www.sagchip.org/ziibiwing/

Abstract

Permanent exhibition, opened May 2004. 9,000 sq. ft. Andre & Associates Interpretation and Design Ltd., exhibition design firm; Monadnock Media, Inc., multimedia firm; Maltbie, Inc., exhibit fabricators; Bonnie Ekdahl, Ziibiwing Center director until Dec. 2007; Shannon Martin, current director; Paul Johnson, Ziibiwing Center planner; Patrick D. Wilson, curator; William Johnson, curator; Charmaine Benz, editor/publications specialist; Amanda (Falcon) Agosto, visitor services coordinator; Gilbert Williams, multimedia specialist. One of the most significant recent developments in the museum world is the emergence of tribal museums on reservations across the United States and Canada. These museums reflect the desires of Native Americans to present and preserve their history by establishing cultural institutions for their own communities and for the general public. The development of tribal museums is important given the complex historical relationship between Indigenous people and museums and the role that museums have played in the appropriation and misrepresentation of Native American people and cultures. Tribal communities, in an act of self-determination, are controlling the representation of their cultures and challenging mainstream museum representations of the past.