http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ431774&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ431774 Chris Taylor Executive Director Atchison County Historical Society P.O. Box 201 200 S. 10th Street, Santa Fe Depot Atchison, KS 66002 913-367-6238 [log in to unmask] www.atchisonhistory.org Claudia Nicholson wrote: > Hello all: For at least the last 10 years, I have been searching for > two articles that I read once and would like to have as resources. > > The first article appeared in the magazine of the American Indian > Science and Engineering Society publication /Winds of Change/ (I think > that is the name of the publication). It was written by Vine DeLoria, > Jr., and was about the differences between white and Indian societies' > ways of thinking about religion. It was quite wonderful, and I have > never been able to run a copy of the article to earth. Sorry that I > cannot remember the name of the articles. This was probably between > 1992 and 1997. > > The other article was written by a curator at an Indian museum in the > Pacific Northwest or Northern Great Plains region (I think). In it, > she described a classification scheme for the objects at her museum > that used the culture of her tribe to both think about and store the > objects. My recollection is that she had objects housed by clan > associations, and there were objects belonging to historical enemies > that she would never consider housing in the same cabinet. There was > also something about where women's objects were stored in relation to > men's. It was fascinating and a very different way of thinking about > the classification of objects. > > I would be pleased to get references for one or both of these > articles, and hopefully, copies of both. > > Thank you all. I am counting on you! > > Claudia > > Claudia J. Nicholson > Executive Director > North Star Museum of Boy Scouting and Girl Scouting > 2640 Seventh Avenue East > North St. Paul, MN 55109-3103 > 651-748-2880 > [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > www.nssm.org <http://www.nssm.org> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the MUSEUM-L list, click the following link: > http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=MUSEUM-L&A=1 > <http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=MUSEUM-L&A=1> > ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).