Through a comparison between indigenous agency at the Magüta Museum (the first indigenous museum in Brazil, belongs to the Ticuna people, located in Benjamin Constant, Amazonas) and the exhibitions about the Musqueam Nation at the UBC Museum of Anthropology (that has pioneered collaboration in museum work with indigenous peoples, located in Vancouver, Canada), this work analyses coexistent modalities of the so-called indigenization of museums. It is interested in distinguishing the epistemologies and politics involved in the construction of the indigenous contents of these spaces and their self-representation, problematizing the expression "indigenization of museums" and reflecting, at the same time, about what is reconstructed after the colonial situations in terms of museum scenarios
Indigenous museums, Indigenization of museums, Ticuna, Musqueams, Self-representation