Trevor Bond to talk about "Coming Home to Nez Perce Country"

508 S Main St, Pullman WA

15 September, 2021

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FREE Event by Book People Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, Wednesday, September 15 at 7:00pm Dr. Trevor Bond will discuss "Coming Home to Nez Perce Country: The Niimiipuu Campaign to Repatriate Their Exploited Heritage," published in 2021 by the Washington State University Press. In 1847, missionary Henry Spalding shipped two barrels of “Indian curiosities”--exquisite Nez Perce shirts, dresses, baskets, horse regalia, and more--to an Ohio friend. Given just six months in 1993, the tribe launched a brilliant grassroots campaign and raised $608,100 to reclaim their exploited cultural heritage. Bond draws on interviews with Nez Perce experts and extensive archival research to tell fascinating story of the Spalding-Allen Collection. He also examines the ethics of acquiring, bartering, owning, and selling Native cultural history. Bond is the Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives and Special Collections at the Washington State University Libraries. He is the Director of WSU's Center for Arts and Humanities and the Co-Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation. (Note: masks are required.)