Indigenous – HIST 7064

Diverse Voices, Archival Silences, and Representation

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Matika Wilbur & Adrienne Keene, Episode 1, “All My Relations & Indigenous Feminism,” All My Relations, 2019
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story,” TED Talk (2009)
Ashley Farmer, “Archiving While Black,” Chronicle of Higher Education, July 22, 2018
Dominique Luster, “Archives Have the Power to Boost Marginalized Voices,” TEDxPittsburgh (2018)
Bergis Jules, “Confronting Our Failure of Care Around the Legacies of Marginalized People in the Archives,” 2016

Think

What factors contribute to archival silences, and what can be done to mitigate these silences? By archivists? By members of marginalized communities? Bergis Jules talks about how archives dictate “who is remembered and how they’re remembered,” and that “how [people are remembered] dictates who gets violence perpetrated against them.” What are some examples of this? How do these examples contribute to our understanding of how archives have been and could be used?

To Do

Guest Speaker: Dr. Shannon Murray, Calgary Stampede

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Amy Lonetree, Decolonizing Museums, Preface & Chapters 1-2 (xi-72)
Adam Hochschild, “The Fight to Decolonize the Museum,” The Atlantic, 2020
Marian Carpenter, “View from the Field: The Challenges to Being Inclusive in Museum Collections,” Inclusive Historians Handbook, 2020

Think

What does it mean to decolonize a museum? Why do museums need to be decolonized does she argue? How did museums become problematic places for Native peoples to visit and also as places that display Native artifacts? What are some specific examples from the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe’s Museum that Lonetree argues are successful and not successful decolonizing practices?

To Do

Cemeteries Assignment by 5pm
Find a professional way to thank Dr. Murray

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Week 8: Mar 3

Diverse Voices, Archival Silences, and Representation

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