Natural History Museum of Utah Anthropologists Use Grant Funds to Employ Indigineous Consults in a Step to Decolonize Native Collections

Last spring, the Natural History Museum of Utah (NHMU), Tanner Humanities Center, and the U’s Anthropology department received a substantial grant as part of NEH’s A More Perfect Union initiative, which selected projects that – among other things – investigate, examine, and work to express the experiences of Native Americans and other underrepresented communities throughout our wholly imperfect American history.

Led by Dr. Alexandra Greenwald, curator of ethnography at NHMU and assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Utah, NHMU has spent the last six months working with members of tribal communities throughout the Mountain West in a paid consultant capacity to share oral histories and Indigenous perspectives on ethnographic items in NHMU’s collections.

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