From the Kislak Stacks
Join us for these monthly lunchtime presentations (noon – 1 pm) by Kislak curators, faculty, and students focusing on specific works or small archives/collections found among the holdings of the Kislak Center.
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Indigenous Voices in the Archives: Surveying Native Collections in the Kislak Center
Drawing on lessons learned from collaborating with Native American and First Nations peoples, in-resident researcher Emily Jean Leischner will share stories and snippets from her initial survey of Indigenous knowledge in the Kislak Center archives.
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Like many archives and libraries worldwide, the Kislak collection contains written documentation of invaluable knowledge from Native communities across the globe. Drawing on lessons learned from collaborating with Native American and First Nations peoples, Emily will share stories and snippets from her initial survey of Indigenous knowledge in the archives, and propose directions for their future stewardship and engagement with the Indigenous communities it came from.
About the Speaker
Emily Jean Leischner is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Philosophical Society, graduate of the University of British Columbia, and in-resident researcher at Kislak for 2024-2025. She is a non-Indigenous, community-based scholar and historian who studies and works with museums, archives, and libraries that hold Indigenous collections. She has been working collaboratively with the Nuxalk First Nation since 2016, and is the former co-host of Using and Refusing Museums on Nuxalk Radio.
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Featured image: Cherokee Alphabet [lithograph], 1826, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts