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Berkeley faculty, staff and alumni — and participants from as far away as Alaska — collaborate on a four-day, first-of-its-kind Native American Museum Studies Institute designed to give Indians the tools to “tell their own stories, and to tell the stories from their perspective.”
Tag: Native American
Hearst Museum to close temporarily for transformation
June 30, 2012:
An extensive redesign of UC Berkeley’s Hearst Museum of Anthropology means a temporary closure starting July 1; reopening is scheduled for 2014.
A century later, Ishi still has lessons to teach
September 12, 2011:
On the 100th anniversary of the making of the Yahi survivor’s historic “wood duck” recording, a daylong conference dedicated itself to correcting the record, and to remembering him as an educator, a pioneer and a man.
California Language Archive clicks with multiple resources
June 20, 2011:
The new California Language Archive (CLA) website at UC Berkeley – the largest indigenous language archive at a U.S. university – is now accessible free of charge to anyone with Internet access.
UC Berkeley recordings of Ishi added to Library of Congress registry
April 6, 2011:
Recordings of songs and stories told by Ishi, a Yahi tribe member who was taken in by UC Berkeley anthropologists in the early 1900s, have been added to the Library of Congress registry. Ishi, who emerged from the Mount Lassen foothills in 1911, was initially thought to be the last-surviving member of the Yahi tribe. The recordings are part of the collection at Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.
Philip Frickey, leading scholar in federal Indian law, dies at 57
July 16, 2010:
Philip Frickey, one of the nation’s foremost experts on federal Indian law, died Sunday, July 11, at the age of 57.
