Location:
Western Museums Association Annual Meeting
Salt Lake City, UT
Speaker:
Dakota Keene
Date & Time:
09.26.2026 | 9:00am - 10:15am
Indigenous communities do not conceptualize knowledge, story, or experience as confined within museum walls. Land, movement, arrival, and narrative are interconnected and inseparable. Yet many museums remain grounded in a Western model that centers the building as object.
Join Mithun partner Dakota Keene for “Beginning With Land: Decolonizing Museum Environments” to explore how Indigenous-led approaches can support the decolonization of museum environments, using project precedents and academic research to share strategies for rethinking arrival, orientation and site in both new and existing institutions to support more meaningful and culturally grounded visitor experiences.
Dakota will moderate the session. Panelists include Live Oak Consulting principal Deana Dartt, AldrichPears Associates partner Robin Anderson and Historic Preservation Department Puyallup Tribe director Brandon Reynon.
Date Posted: 09.26.2026
