Ostler, JeffreyPersico, Ariana2020-09-242020-09-242020-09-24https://hdl.handle.net/1794/25656Specifically focusing on the Museum at Warm Springs, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, and the High Desert Museum this thesis explores how Native and non-Native museums exist at the intersection of historical narrative production and memory studies. By examining how these institutions illuminate the Indigenous Historical Landscape it is easier to see how museums engage with Native histories and voices. Historians tend to favor historical monographs, not museums, as the cornerstone for historical narrative dissemination which leaves museums struggling to display complex Native histories. By arguing for museums as sites of active engagement with memory and as authors of historical narratives, museums will be able to participate in better decolonizing practices in order to combat settler colonial narrative erasure. Museums are unique educational institutions that create space for critical interactions that change how history is produced, consumed, and circulated.en-USAll Rights Reserved.Indigenous Historical LandscapeMemory StudiesMuseumsNative American HistoryElectronic Thesis or Dissertation