A review by mkrabbe
Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture by Chip Colwell

3.0

Colwell, as a museum curator, is sometimes painfully sympathetic to museums that fight or chafe against repatriation. While the content was interesting and I learned a lot, I found myself annoyed with Colwell and the middle ground 'why can't we all just get along' stance he took. The conclusion especially bugged me when he discussed disagreements over history, as if museum curators who are not Native American have any claim to a history that is not theirs. BLEh. The case studies were gripping, the opinions not so much.