American Indian Musical Repatriation

Repatriation is a multifaceted global phenomenon, one that intersects with complex, ever-changing issues of concern to those involved in museums, archives (audio/visual/other), art/antiquities/exotica collecting and marketing, ethics, international/national/state/American Indian law (especially contested ideas about copyright, ownership, and property—be it individual, group, cultural, or intellectual), and the rights of indigenous peoples as well as all other humans in today’s complex nation states...