Pictures Bring Us Messages / Sinaakssiiksi Aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa

Alison K. Brown is a research fellow with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. Laura Peers is a lecturer and curator with the Pitt Rivers Museum and the School of Anthropology at the University of Oxford.

• List of IllustrationsForeword by Narcisse Blood, Chair, Mookaakin FoundationAcknowledgmentsProject Participants Introduction The Photographs and Their Contexts: Kainai HistoryAnthropological ContextsWorking TogetherReading the PhotographsThe Past in the Present: Community ConclusionsMoving Forward: Institutional ImplicationsConclusionsStatement of ConsentAppendix 1: Itinerary of Beatrice Blackwood’s North AmericanFieldwork, 1924–7 Appendix 2: Beatrice Blackwood’s Notations on Her Photographs with Kainai IdentificationsAppendix 3: Protocol Agreement Appendix 4: Kainai Reflectionson Beatrice Blackwood’s DiaryNotesBibliographyIndex

"Pictures Bring Us Messages" marks a serious advance in research. There are regrettably far too few such collaborative projects, although the need has been identified for many years. This book is unique, innovative, and valuable, with scholarship of the highest standard. It establishes that it is possible to bridge a divide - perceived and sustained by museums, archives, historians, and others - if Indigenous ethics and protocols, and the needs of the source community, are respected.' Sarah Carter, Department of History, University of Calgary 'This book is a major contribution to research into museumlarchives collections and how the people who work at these institutions can reach out to and work productively and collaboratively with Aboriginal peoples. The photos - the focus of the book - are excellent, and the text is carefully written, thoughtful, and analytical.' Patricia McCormack, School of Native Studies, University of Alberta