Who Owns the Past? Presentation by Brady Wolf, Curator of Indigenous Collections

"Who Owns the Past" presentation by Brady Wolf, Curator of Indigenous collections Missouri Historical Society Library & Research Center on November 10 at 6:30 p.m.

"Who Owns the Past"

Missouri has been home to Indigenous peoples from the Paleolithic era to the present. For centuries European and American historians and laymen alike have speculated about their industries, religions, languages, and ways of life.

Historically, this curiosity meant that Indigenous cultural heritage was aggressively taken from burials, village sites, reservations, and individuals. Since 1990, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) has governed the return of Ancestral remains many of these items and has profoundly impacted the museum industry.

This event is free and open to the public.

Curator and Repatriation specialist Brady Wolf provides on overview of these topics by exploring Missouri's Indigenous history and culture, collection and curation practices, and the intersection of the two in repatriation work.