Okay, actually I'm going to yell about this online on behalf of my cousins: our museum is a fucking clown show right now.
The Museum of the Cherokee People (formerly Museum of the Cherokee Indian) is a privately-run organization indirectly managed by the tribe in accordance with a charter.
It'd be nice if we just ran our museum instead of having it be run indirectly with an oversight committee consisting of five elders, all of whom have beeves with the other four.
The charter empowers the museum to use tribal artifacts and other resources to produce exhibits that are meant to educate both members of the tribe and tourists about the history and traditional culture of the Cherokee people for the purposes of cultural preservation.
All of this is news to the museum's head, a White woman without any background in Native history or culture who was hired against Tribal policy, who instead believes that the museum should be an art gallery for modern Cherokee artists, ignoring that already exists across the street in the co-op.
No, she's Native, we're talking about Cammie Bello, Manager of Collections and white as the driven snow, who cut ahead of *five* different Cherokee people because she's Shana's friend.
Like, if she already had a Masters in Native studies, I'd bite my tongue and live with it, but she's a fucking *Art Historian*! Not what the museum is for no matter what Shana says!
Even if she did have that, it's not appropriate to hire someone into leadership straight out of graduate school.
I do wonder if Cammie has fundraising connections though.
