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Snead, Taylor; Cushman, Ellen – Modern Language Journal, 2023
In light of recent calls for decolonial approaches to Indigenous language learning, documentation, and reclamation, we describe the creation of a digital archive initiated and sustained by community collaboration. We work with members of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes to translate and analyze Cherokee texts. Cherokee speakers…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Archives, Computer Mediated Communication, Community Involvement
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McCracken, Krista; Hogan, Skylee-Storm – Across the Disciplines, 2021
Archives contain records that document the lives, cultures, and histories of Indigenous communities that are often organized within a governmental or colonial creation structure. This structure can create barriers to access for Indigenous communities and researchers that depend on those records. This article re-imagines archival methods of…
Descriptors: Archives, Community Needs, Ownership, Civil Rights
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Christy L. Oxendine – Qualitative Research Journal, 2024
Purpose: This paper centers a decolonial and Indigenous methodological approaches to educational history research. This research offers how "Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples" by Linda Tuhiwai Smith impacts one education historian's scholarship alongside conversations of historiography concerning the Lumbee…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Decolonization, Educational History, Indigenous Knowledge
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Paul J. Jurmo – Prospects, 2024
This article is written for educators and others interested in creating high-quality adult basic skills development systems in both developing countries and other nations. It presents case studies of two Indigenous-language adult literacy/numeracy projects in rural villages in The Gambia between 1976 and 1983. The first project was based at the…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Innovation, Leadership, Numeracy
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Smith, Bryan – Canadian Social Studies, 2017
Author Bryan Smith agrees that critiques of Sir John A. Macdonald, and Cornwallis as unworthy of public commemoration are warranted and necessary, particularly as each was instrumental in cementing settler-colonial projects of dominion and erasure of Indigenous populations. However, he observes that each figure is but one point (or multiple) in…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Disadvantaged
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James, Russell D. – Journal of Archival Organization, 2004
Archivists working in repositories that contain local government records play an integral role within the local community. Unlike their colleagues in state, regional, or national repositories, the local government archivist concentrates on a small geographic region and demonstrates knowledge of the politics, history, and socio-economics of the…
Descriptors: Local Government, Government Publications, Archives, Local History