This article critiques the settler colonial politics of recognition in relation to Canadian museological practice. Despite a strong intellectual legacy critiquing asymmetric power relations and the problems of representing “otherness,” there have been few sustained examinations of the ways in which museums are implicated in settler colonial regimes of power. Dene scholar Glen Coulthard has written extensively on the manner in which the “politics of recognition” perpetuates settler colonialism in Canada. I argue that the normative shifts in Canadian museum practice post-1988 exemplify institutionalized shifts toward the colonial politics of recognition within Canadian museums. Further, I find that this is part of ongoing settler colonial practices of domination. I argue that current museological practice, particularly as it relates to Indigenous pieces within museums, must include a critique of the settler colonial politics of recognition as part of both critical analysis and normative orientation.

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承认的界限：精神歌唱、加拿大博物馆和承认的殖民政治

本文批判了与加拿大博物馆学实践相关的移民殖民政治认同。尽管有强烈的知识遗产批评不对称的权力关系和表现“他者”的问题，但很少有人持续研究博物馆与殖民者殖民权力制度的牵连方式。Dene 学者格伦·库特哈德 (Glen Coulthard) 撰写了大量关于“承认政治”使加拿大定居者殖民主义永久化的方式。我认为 1988 年后加拿大博物馆实践的规范转变体现了加拿大博物馆内部向殖民政治承认的制度化转变。此外，我发现这是正在进行的殖民者殖民统治实践的一部分。我认为当前的博物馆学实践，