First Americans Museum refashions process for reuniting cultural items with Indigenous communities

Along with the film’s release, the museum will share an accompanying book, detailing its reunification process and sharing additional stories that the film may have left out.

Inside a conference room at the First Americans Museum, MaryAnn Guoladdle Parker flips through the new WINIKO: Reunions book, which she co-authored. Parker is a curator at FAM and a Kiowa citizen from Hog Creek near Anadarko.

“So my essay is actually titled ‘Reuniting the Past, the Present and the Future,’ and I mostly just talked about how the tribal members felt coming into this and the process of it,” Parker said…

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