Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums Project at UW-Madison SLIS
Golly, it’s been quite a semester! Between work, classes, extracurricular activities, and everything else that takes up the time of your average student, all of us have been kept more than busy in the academic swirl we call grad school.
When someone mentions Wisconsin Dells, what’s the first thing that pops into your mind? Water parks? Roller coasters? Stories your grandma told you about some funky rock formations? While all of these are certainly true, the Wisconsin Dells have more
With fewer agenda items, our second trip up to Red Cliff was more focused on the task of cataloging new items, specifically finishing up the Metz Collection. When we arrived during the afternoon of April 15th we fell right into
When offered the chance to join a group of talented and service-minded individuals throughout the state, we leapt at the opportunity to become part of the longstanding partnership between SLIS and the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. What
Not content to stop at the borders of our country, we spent a week learning about TLAM efforts abroad, which came with mini-lessons on other indigenous groups. For our penultimate discussion, the class was broken up into four pairs,
Little did we know going into our first trip to Red Cliff in February that the next time we were all gathered there, it would be for Ginanda Gikendaasomin’s grand opening, an event seven years in the making. With that
In our study of tribal cultural institutions this semester, we have focused primarily on issues involving American Indians. In last week’s class, we delved into various international Indigenous issues. I could write a whole series of blog posts about the
If I had to pick a phrase to summarize one major message from TLAM so far, it would be: context, context, context. Our projects and many of our discussions focus on tribes in Wisconsin — this is our privilege and
Last week our TLAM class visited the Wisconsin Historical Museum, located across the street from the State Capitol in Madison. We met with Angie Glasker, the assistant curator, who gave us an overview of museum’s work in implementing NAGPRA (The
Generally speaking, archives should exist to contain our history and help us connect with our past. However, this hasn’t always been the case for tribes in the United States. During the 1970s and 1980s, when many tribes were looking to