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Brokering the Sacred Poster web1200Artist credit: Dyani White Hawk, Stealing Horses Back, 2016. Courtesy of the artist and Bockley Gallery.
Artist credit: Angel Trazo, MA Asian American Studies, UCLA 2020.

Fowler Museum panel discussion Brokering the Sacred: The Ethics of Collecting Native Art, part of the 50th anniversary of UCLA's Institute for American Cultures hosted by UCLA American Indian Studies Center and our supporters including the Latin American Institute. The ethics of collecting Native arts are debated by a panel of experts, including Mercedes Dorame, Tongva artist; Sven D. Haakanson, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington; Andrew Meyer, Visiting Graduate Researcher at UCLA Latin American Institute and Coordinator of the California Hub of the Institut des Amériques; Wendy Teeter, Curator of Archaeology, Fowler Museum