Check out the new Archival Outlook publication on the Native American Boarding Schools Project

Check out the new publication, collaboratively authored by some of our NAAS Steering Committee Members:

A Human Rights Issue: Native American Boarding Schools 

Natalie Bond and Itza Carbajal, SAA Human Rights Archives Section; Rose Buchanan and Caitlin Haynes, SAA Native American Archives Section; Christine Diindiisi McCleave and Stephen R. Curley, National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

Native American boarding school records document a tragic era within the United States’ relations with Indigenous peoples, and the absence of a significant number of these records is one area in which archives and human rights issues intersect. Last fall, we and other members of SAA’s Human Rights Archives (HRA) and Native American Archives (NAAS) sections were looking for a way to share how archivists can collaborate with Native communities to address historical trauma documented and perpetuated in these records. We also hoped to frame issues related to Native American archives more broadly as human rights issues.

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day on October 12, 2019, in collaboration with the National Native American Boarding School (NABS) Healing Coalition, we coordinated a free webinar called “Digital Access to Dispersed Records: A Look at Native American Boarding School Records.” Within a few days of announcing it, registration reached maximum capacity with participants eager to attend the live, hour-long webinar.

Online here: https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=30305&i=660855&p=4