Publications

PUBLICATIONS

• Living Homes for Cultural Expression by Karen Coody Cooper
• Contemporary Native American Architecture by Dr. Carol Herselle Krinsky

DISSERTATIONS

• Tribal Cultural Centers: Planning for Today and Tomorrow by Josephine G. Lee, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, University of Washington 2012. The study developed a baseline about tribal cultural centers across the 48 continental United States and Alaska that opened within the past ten years. This research asked: What do tribal museums look like? How are they formed? And, why are they relevant?
• Indigenous Architecture: Envisioning, Designing, and Building the Museum at Warm Springs by
  Anne Lawrason Marshall, a Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy, Arizona State University,May 2012.This dissertation is a history of the processes of creating a tribal museum,The Museum At Warm Springs, on the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon. The focus is to understand what critical activities Tribal members, designers, and others did to create a museum whose architecture represents and serves its community. The study also considers how people did things so as to honor Indigenous traditions. Design and construction processes are considered along with strategies that Tribal members and their advocates used to get to where they were prepared to design and build a museum.
• Implicit Ordering: A Tribal Center to Connect Land, Community and Creativity by
  Denise Pieratos, submitted to the Department of Architecture on May 29, 1998 in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. A design proposal was developed for a new tribal center to meet the current and future needs of the Anishinabe community on the Lake Vermilion Reservation, Bois Forte Band of Minnesota Chippewa,in northern Minnesota. At issue in the development of the design were issues of cultural usage of space, cold climate design imperatives, site selection, and programming considerations.
• Design for The Museum For The Native American Indian by Phoebe R. Millon, submitted to the Department of Architecture in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 1997. While this is not the design that was ultimately used, the thesis has helpful information on field visits, site considerations, lighting, and other subjects.