Oral History in the Study of Discrimination and Cultural Repression

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsVictoria WyattVictoria Wyatt is Assistant Professor of Art History and Curator of Northwest Coast Indian Art, Burke Museum, at the University of Washington. She is currently the project director of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to prepare a traveling exhibition of historical photographs of Alaskan Indians from the Alaska Historical Library. Her study Shapes of Their Thoughts: Reflections of Culture Contact in Northwest Coast Indian Art, the catalogue of an exhibition she curated at the Yale Peabody Museum, was published in 1984. She holds a doctorate in history from Yale University.An earlier version of this paper was presented as part of a panel, “The Transformation of Western Ethnic Communities,” at the annual meeting of the Oral History Association held in Long Beach, California, on October 23,1986, under the title of “Fighting for Equality: Indian Strength in Southeast Alaska in the Twentieth Century.”