Contested spaces, shared places: The Museum of Anthropology at UBC, aboriginal peoples, and postcolonial criticism

[...] many Aboriginal individuals have exercised a great deal of agency - agency absent or minimized in many postcolonial critiques - in helping to lay the foundations for and/ or maintaining the very institutions that are the subjects of ongoing controversy and condemnation. [...] with the rise of postcolonial studies in the last few decades, MOA staff have faced considerably more pressure to work with First Nations than ever before. Reprinted by permission of BC Studies