ABSTRACT
The growth of a multicultural population in Canada has created new constituents for the museum; constituents who have recognized its authority and have begun to ask for representation—or in some cases, more adequate representation—in its walls. Indian museums present an opportunity for Indian children and the general public to learn Canadian history from a Native perspective. Museums, and the cultural centers they are a part of, have played an important part in larger process, identifying the reserve— Indian space—as the site of Native history. The Task Force on Museums and First Peoples, along with the growing museum literature, begins to provide a sense of what the borderlands might look like; what meetings will be enacted there. Unlike the margins of colonial maps, or the diasporas discussed, borderlands reflect a meeting of two or more cultures. They are spaces where citizens, languages, and customs coexist, necessarily recognizing the presence of one another.
