Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums Project at UW-Madison SLIS
Attendees of the fifth Convening Culture Keepers at Oneida, Wisconsin On November 8 and 9, over thirty Wisconsin tribal librarians, archivists, and museum curators at the fifth gathering of Convening Culture Keepers (CCK) hosted by the Oneida Nation. Eleven SLIS
Indigenous Epistemology. What’s that you ask? This week in class we spent a 2 hour and 30 minute session going over just this. There is no short answer in sight, but rather an overview of the engaging discussion that my
For the third week of TLAM, we looked at the topics of Wisconsin tribal histories, media, and storytelling. Class began with a continuation of the discussion from the panel at last week’s screening of “Reel Injun.” Like the panelists, many
This week we had speakers Nancy Mithlo and Tom Jones discuss their experiences and professional work with museums. Nancy’s background is in anthropology and she has studied and worked all over the country. She spoke about Native American art and
This is just to cover a few things we discussed at the curriculum meeting. First we discussed why TLAM should be made into a class, some major points were: enrichment for SLIS, it reaches out to other students, not only
Today was an interesting class in that we all met at the University Club. We were joined by Ryan Comfort (Recruitment & Retention Specialist [Student Diversity Programs]) and his assistant Aaron Bird-Bear, Tracy Peterson (American Indian Student Academic Services), and
First things first: I began this class knowing close to nothing on American Indian affairs–contemporary or otherwise–outside a handful of movies and some grossly inadequate public school history classes. In reality, the classes served no other purpose than to gloss over a
Obviously the history of the treatment of American Indians in the US is a painful reminder of the atrocities committed over the past 200+ years. This article I think does a good job of parsing out the good from the