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Chris Taylor
Executive Director
Atchison County Historical Society
P.O. Box 201
200 S. 10th Street, Santa Fe Depot
Atchison, KS 66002
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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
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