Archival Futures: the Ethics of Access

This presentation highlights an aspirational, forward-looking temporal lens that complicates the often backward looking tendencies of archival work in order to provide a framework for that future shaped around ethical engagements and reciprocal practices, by thinking through types and modes of accountability that we share as stewards and care-takers of cultural belongings and knowledge in whatever form they may take, analog or digital.

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1. ARCHIVAL FUTURES: THE ETHICS OF ACCESS Dr. Kimberly Christen Director, Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation Washington State University kimchristen.com | @mukurtu
4. “the U.S. legal system has historically facilitated and normalized the taking of all things Indian for others’ use, from lands to sacred objects, and from bodies to identities.” -Angela Riley 2016 (pg 866)
5. 5 American ethnographer Frances Densmore makes a phonographic recording of Blackfoot leader Mountain Chief at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, for the Bureau of American Ethnology, 16th February 1916.
6. 6 LEGAL FICTIONS
7. COMPANY / PRESENTATION NAME 7
8. 8 ANCESTRAL VOICES PROJECT
11. 11 THE ‘TRADERS SONG’ RECORDED MARCH 18, 1890, PASSAMAQUODDY TRIBE -NEWELL JOSEPHS , CALAIS MAINE
19. 19 MUKURTU’S CORE FEATURES • Cultural protocols • Extended metadata & community records • Roundtrip-selective sharing • Traditional Knowledge (TK) Labels
26. “ 26 THE CHALLENGE FOR NON- NATIVE PEOPLE LIES IN ESCAPING THE BAD HABIT OF VIEWING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AS RELICS OF THE PAST.” - PHILLIP DELORIA, K. TSIANINA LOMAWAIMA, BRYAN BRAYBOY, MARK TRAHANT, LOREN GHIGLIONE, DOUGLAS MEDIN & NED BLACKHAWK ( UNFOLDING FUTURES: INDIGENOUS WAYS OF KNOWING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, 2018)
27. Indigenous relationships & sovereignty Multiple voices & values Cultural sovereignty TK Labels & digital repatriation
28. 28 THANK YOU FOR LISTENING DR. KIMBERLY CHRISTEN | @MUKURTU | KIMCHRISTEN.COM