June 20, 2019
Augustana University Partners with Flandreau Indian School for Archival Re-Presentations
Author: Jackie Hendry
Augustana University is partnering with Flandreau Indian School and the Washington Pavilion for a project that brings Native American perspectives into historical archives. Augustana is one of 25 independent colleges in the country to win a grant for the Humanities Research for the Public Good initiative.
Photographs and other documents in archival collections may include Native Americans, but these items are rarely created by Native Americans.
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