Paper short abstract:

In this presentation I explore how notions such as decolonization and indigenization of museums have been practiced in Canada and the United States.

Paper long abstract:

In this presentation, I first address and problematize the notions of decolonization and indigenization of museums. For this purpose, I analyze the traveling exhibition "Inquiry", that has been mounted from 2009 to the present in more than 30 localities in Canada and the United States.

On a second moment, I propose a comparative exercise with other exhibitions and museums in North America, in which curatorial and collecting collaboration, and indigenous self-representation have become central concerns in the past few years. The objective is to identify the relationships between the incorporation of cultural protocols and ethical commitments in the definition and establishment of conditions of production of knowledge, and their promotion by Canadian museological policies.