Hopi & Apache Opt Out From American Museums
In 1994 a couple of Native American tribes ordered a number of museums to close their intellectual property to the public. They were backed by the NAGPRA.They would disclose their property only after permission was requested directly to them. Vernon Masayesva, CEO of the Hopi Tribe, and a consortium of Apache tribes demanded a number of American museums the closure of their images, text, ceremonies, music, songs, stories, symbols, beliefs, customs, ideas, concepts and ethnographic field-notes, feature films, historical works, and any other medium in which their culture may appear literally, imagined, expressed, parodied or embellished."
Read more about this topic: Indigenous Intellectual Property, Examples of Indigenous Peoples Defending Their Intellectual Property
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