Book Review: Who Owns Native Culture?

Authors

April R. Summit, Andrews University

Date of this Version

2004

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 24:4 (Fall 2004). Copyright © 2005 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

In this important work, Michael Brown discusses competing claims to culture through a series of interesting case studies. He begins by outlining the major arguments going on inside indigenous cultures today and how efforts to assert sovereignty have brought many new issues into the political arena. Throughout the work, Brown maintains that a balance must be found between protecting Native culture from outsiders and communicating the benefits of that culture to the mainstream.