Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1177/15501906221074440
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1177/15501906211073096
Jennifer Byram, Megan A. Baker
In a recent exhibit, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, and Bibliothèque Municipale de Versailles worked together to learn more about the museum’s royal Americas collection which features items from numerous Indigenous communities. Collected by French explorers during the eighteenth century and later displayed in royal curiosity cabinets, these items have not been seen by Choctaw communities since they left the continent. This collaboration has culminated in the “La Curiosité d’un Prince” exhibit, which features a room curated by Choctaw Nation. This article shows how a joint initiative to study the collection gave voice to the relationships and material histories inherent in the items. Reflecting on this less-known historical period, this collaboration has reinvigorated Choctaw-French relations and allowed Choctaw Nation to showcase the richness and complexity of its sovereignty—which is often narrowly understood through its relationship with the United States. By providing an example of true collaboration that has spurred new research and writing on both the cultural and political knowledge contained in the objects held in France, we demonstrate the potential for relationships and knowledge inherent in museum collections to act as a platform for new expressions of Indigenous sovereignty.
在最近的一次展览中，俄克拉何马州的乔克托族、mus du quai brany - jacques Chirac和凡尔赛市政图书馆共同合作，了解更多关于博物馆的皇家美洲收藏品，这些收藏品以来自许多土著社区的物品为特色。这些物品在18世纪由法国探险家收集，后来被陈列在皇家珍品柜中，自从乔克托人离开非洲大陆后，这些物品就再也没有被乔克托人看到过。这次合作在“La curiosit d’un Prince”展览中达到了高潮，该展览的一个房间由Choctaw Nation策划。这篇文章展示了一个研究藏品的联合倡议是如何表达这些物品内在的关系和材料历史的。回顾这段鲜为人知的历史时期，这种合作使乔克托族与法国的关系重新焕发了活力，并使乔克托族得以展示其主权的丰富性和复杂性——人们通常通过与美国的关系来狭隘地理解这一点。通过提供一个真正的合作的例子，激发了对法国藏品中包含的文化和政治知识的新研究和写作，我们展示了博物馆藏品中固有的关系和知识的潜力，可以作为土著主权新表达的平台。
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1177/15501906211072917
Spy Dénommé-Welch, J. Becker, Cecilia Garcia Vega
This paper examines the intersection of environmental sound recording, sound collection, and archiving by drawing on Land-based approaches, Indigenous epistemologies, and methodologies. In particular, this paper considers some of the implications for immersive sound-based fieldwork informed by site-specific listening methods, embodied learning and forms of reflexivity that are rooted in Indigenous concepts of relationality (kinship). Specifically, this paper revolves around an initial field research trip from our project Sonic Coordinates: Decolonizing through Land-based music composition (supported by the New Frontiers Research Fund) which took place in the region of Timiskaming (Northern Ontario, Canada) during the fall of 2019. Consequently, our paper examines what was learned through this process, and how critical listening and recording/collection of environmental sounds can be used to inform Indigenous sound/music composition and aural forms of storying. This paper ultimately explores the ephemeral concepts of sound materiality and how aural archiving and documentation (through digitizing and digital platforms) is used to preserve and engage historical memory, cultural knowledge and shifts toward the development of sonic art and communication that is informed by site-specific research practice.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1177/15501906211072918
Victoria Van Orden Martínez
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1177/15501906211072910
H. George
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1177/15501906211073074
Jenny L. Davis, Krystiana L. Krupa
Language, especially categorization and description through language, is a frequent barrier to collaboration when it comes to collections taken from Native American and Indigenous communities. This impacts collections care within institutions and for the Native people whose relatives and objects are held in those institutions. Drawing on our experiences as NAGPRA and repatriation practitioners, we offer examples of adopting a “language of possibility.” Current legal and non-Indigenous institutional nomenclature often assumes that the categories used to describe Indigenous collections are “common sense,” and adjustments to that language are often only made after direct intervention from Native American and Indigenous communities. These terms and norms of discourse originate in white, EuroAmerican ideologies of science and scientific classification, and those ideologies are inseparable from their concomitant religious and linguistic systems. Shifting to language that recognizes animacy, or allows for the possibility of it, has the potential to undo this harm before, during, and after consultation and collaboration with Native Nations and Indigenous stakeholders. Language is a site of intervention into non-Indigenous assumptions and practices that not only create barriers to consultation and repatriation, but also directly impact collections care.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1177/15501906211072911
Adriana Muñoz
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1177/15501906211072912
Lorén Spears, A. Thompson
As Executive Director of the Tomaquag Museum, an Indigenous-led organization currently located in Exeter, Rhode Island, Lorén Spears (Narragansett-Niantic) continues the work of reimagining how museums represent and serve Indigenous communities begun by the Indigenous women who held that role before her. Today, we might identify these practices as “decolonizing,” but, to invoke Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg), it is “as [they] have always done.” For over sixty years, the Tomaquag Museum has engaged Indigenous Belongings from its collection in conjunction with cultural knowledge shared by Indigenous peoples to educate the public on Native history, culture, arts, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) of Southern New England. This essay highlights the Tomaquag Museum’s praxis for decolonizing its collections management policy, led by Spears’ intellectual labor. It alternates Spears’ words, excerpted from a conversation with scholar and museum professional Amanda Thompson (non-Native), with selections from the in-progress collections management policy. This format creates a narrative which highlights the history of the museum and its ongoing decolonizing practice and illustrates how policy language can be integral to the work of empowering Native people and transforming museum structures.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-27DOI: 10.1177/15501906221079051
Weatherly A. Stephan
Archivists and donors often experience conflict when promises made during the acquisition process are vaguely defined or do not match expectations. What is the long-term impact of this conflict? And what are the best ways of navigating such conflict? This article takes as a case study the acquisition and stewardship of the Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection at the New York Public Library’s Manuscripts and Archives Division, beginning in 1940. This article explores how promises made by NYPL and expectations set by donors and upheld by collection consultant Edith Wynner impacted researcher access to the Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection both before and after its opening. Struggles over the Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection provided many lessons to NYPL archivists and administrators, and in the present day these lessons serve as poignant reminders about the importance of professional ethics and core values, namely responsible stewardship.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-24DOI: 10.1177/15501906221079052
K. Nyitray, Dana Reijerkerk, C. Kretz
In March 2020, Stony Brook University Libraries began documenting campus communications and the events locally unfolding as the COVID-19 pandemic emerged across the world. These efforts evolved into a larger rapid-response collecting project planned and managed remotely. Documenting COVID-19: Stony Brook University Experiences was developed to preserve institutional history and experiences. With a collecting scope of personal narratives, photographs, and oral histories, the initiative presented new opportunities and challenges for Stony Brook University Libraries. This study discusses the oral history methods for the project from concept to implementation. It describes the planning and managing processes for the oral histories and considers the ethics of recording trauma experiences contemporaneously during the pandemic. The authors offer practical guidance for developing and processing a rapid-response collection of oral histories in a remote environment.
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