I am glad to pass along to Va-Hist subscribers this announcement of
interest, BT


Who Owns the Past? is the title of a presentation scheduled for 4:30
p.m., on Tuesday, 15 April 2008, in the Brown-Alley Room of Weinstein
Hall at the Univeristy of Richmond, by Karenne Wood, director of the
Virginia Indian Heritage Program of the Virginia Foundation for the
Humanities and Public Policy, a member of the Monacan Tribal Council,
and a doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia.

This discussion will consider the representation of Virginia Indian
histories, including issues of cultural patrimony, as they relate to the
past four centuries. It will address the ways in which Western
theoretical constructs and language have marginalized Virginia Indian
peoples and disengaged them from their past and the state-sanctioned
racial policies that have affected Virginia's Indian tribes. She will
examine indigenous ideas about collective memory and cultural
persistence, as well as issues involving the repatriation of cultural
artifacts and ancestral human remains to the descendants of Virginia's
first people. Today, Virginia Indian tribal members are transforming
public perceptions of their history through a program of their own
making, in which they are no longer considered subjects of study but
experts and teachers instead.

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