Landed wisdoms : collaborating on museum education programmes with the Haida Gwaii Museum at Kaay Llnagaay ...

• Main Author: Baird, Jill Rachel
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2011
• Subjects: Skidegate; First Nations
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0055345; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0055345

This dissertation is an adaptive case study/autoethnography used to examine the collaborative development of educational programming at the Haida Gwaii Museum at Kaay Llnagaay, in Skidegate, Haida Gwaii. The collaboration involves First Nations and non-First Nations working in a First Nations community museum context and seeks to learn ways to develop museum education programming that reflects Haida ways of knowing and to transfer this learning to non-First Nations museums. The study is grounded in the intersecting theories of Indigenous knowledge systems, postcolonialism and feminist poststructuralism, and critical and collaborative museologies. The research process involved a mix of methods including personal journaling, photo-documentation, participant interviews and observations. Fieldwork was undertaken over a sixteen month period. Kirkness and Barnhardt’s (1991) 4Rs were used to critically examine the collaborative process. The themes of relationship, and place and land were added to responsibility, ...