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2015

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Review Of Extensible Processing For Archives And Special Collections: Reducing Processing Backlogs, Todd Welch Mar 2015

Review Of Extensible Processing For Archives And Special Collections: Reducing Processing Backlogs, Todd Welch

Journal of Western Archives

Review of Extensible Processing for Archives and Special Collections: Reducing Processing Backlogs.

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Images Of The Surreal: Contrived Photographs Of Native American Indians In Archives And Suggested Best Practices, Zachary R. Jones Jan 2015

Images Of The Surreal: Contrived Photographs Of Native American Indians In Archives And Suggested Best Practices, Zachary R. Jones

Journal of Western Archives

This essay explores the complex history of contrived photographs of Native American Indians created by non-Native photographers around the turn of the twentieth century. Based on research and surveys this essay overviews issues associated with contrived photographs, colonial narratives of history, and offers perspectives and survey feedback on practices that could improve archival description of controversial historical photographs of American Indians found in archives around the world.

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Developing And Organizing An Archival Education Training Opportunity For Oregon’S Tribal Communities: The Oregon Tribal Archives Institute, Natalia M. Fernandez, David G. Lewis Jan 2015

Developing And Organizing An Archival Education Training Opportunity For Oregon’S Tribal Communities: The Oregon Tribal Archives Institute, Natalia M. Fernandez, David G. Lewis

Journal of Western Archives

In 2012 Oregon State University hosted the Oregon Tribal Archives Institute (OTAI), a week long archival education training opportunity specifically designed for Oregon’s nine federally recognized tribes. This article describes the OTAI project development, organization, and implementation. The authors offer various lessons learned that can be applied by others who wish to offer a similar archival education institute.

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Natives In The Nation's Archives: The Southwest Oregon Research Project, David G. Lewis Jan 2015

Natives In The Nation's Archives: The Southwest Oregon Research Project, David G. Lewis

Journal of Western Archives

The Southwest Oregon Research Project, initiated by members of the Coquille Indian tribe broke ground in Oregon for archival collections. Tribal scholars, working to restore and support their tribal nations collected documents and learned skills of archival research and organization. The last phase of the project returned collections to regional tribes in a community process of potlatch. The project theory reversed the trend of the late 19th and early 20th centuries of collecting information from tribes with little or no reciprocity. Tribes today are using the information to write histories, restore cultural identities and support tribal sovereignty.

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Tribal Archives, Traditional Knowledge, And Local Contexts: Why The “S” Matters, Kimberly Christen Jan 2015

Tribal Archives, Traditional Knowledge, And Local Contexts: Why The “S” Matters, Kimberly Christen

Journal of Western Archives

In this article I examine the landscape of tribal or Indigenous archival management as it relates to digital assets and, more specifically, how these might help us reimagine the intellectual property needs of local, traditional, and indigenous communities, libraries, archives, and museums as they seek to manage, preserve, and reuse their digital cultural heritage. The colonial collecting project was a destructive mechanism by which Native materials were unhinged from their local places and knowledge and at the same time used as markers of Native erasure. As part of a practical solution to contemporary intellectual property dilemmas faced by Indigenous peoples …

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"The Right To Know": Decolonizing Native American Archives, Jennifer R. O'Neal Jan 2015

"The Right To Know": Decolonizing Native American Archives, Jennifer R. O'Neal

Journal of Western Archives

This work examines the historic and current policies regarding Native American archives, detailing the broader historic landscape of information services for tribal communities, the initiative to develop tribal archives in Indian Country, and the activism surrounding the proper care and management of Native American archive collections at non-Native repositories. Utilizing Vine Deloria's "Right to Know" call to action, the paper analyzes major activities and achievements of the national indigenous archives movement with a specific focus on archival activists and tribal communities in the American West who were at the forefront of a grassroots movement to establish and develop tribal archives, …

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Native American Archives Special Issue: Dedication, Jennifer O'Neal, David G. Lewis Jan 2015

Native American Archives Special Issue: Dedication, Jennifer O'Neal, David G. Lewis

Journal of Western Archives

This is a dedication for the special issue on Native American archives.

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