Date of Submission
Spring 2012
Academic Program
Anthropology
Project Advisor 1
Laura Kunreuther
Abstract/Artist's Statement
This project is an ethnographic study of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, located on the Mashantucket reservation in Connecticut. The tribe is famous for owning and operating Foxwoods Casino, which funded the nearly $200 million museum facility. By examining the physical construction of the museum's exhibits, I uncover the narratives that the museum conveys through it's display of "Pequotness" and Pequot history. Additionally, I examine a mediating force upon the museum's narrative: the museum's public programs department, responsible for guiding tours and educating visitors.
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Recommended Citation
Beliveau, Jeremy Ellis Sheehan, "Assertions of Identity: Tribal Self-Representation at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center" (2012). Senior Projects Spring 2012. 354.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2012/354
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