| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 32.4

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Book Review

Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Tradition. By Andrew Gulliford. (Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2000. xvi + 285 pp. Illustrations, map, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.)

The introduction to Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions promises that the pages to follow offer an overview of important trends and current issues in Native American cultural preservation efforts. As promised, the book achieves this goal. This well-organized, readable book takes readers on a tour of the major, complex issues in tribal cultural and historic preservation movements, providing enough historical background to give the issues context while bringing them up to date through the generous use of examples. 1

In five chapters the book addresses repatriation of human remains and sacred objects, preservation of sacred places, and current tribal cultural preservation and revitalization efforts, despite constant challenges. Each chapter is divided into subheadings, using diverse examples and extensive quotes from Indian and non–Indian preservation experts to introduce the major issues in each of the subject areas. The discussion of sacred objects, for example, touches on such problems as the dangers and conflicts created by the curatorial application of pesticides and preservatives to sacred objects that tribes wish to repatriate and put back into use. While in-depth analysis of any one of the many such topics highlighted in each chapter could constitute a book in itself, the author has provided enough information, backed by endnotes and an extensive bibliography, to launch interested readers into further research. . . .

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