“I have learned so much about Tribal sovereignty, ethical archival work, and collaborative practices throughout the course of the last year, and I am so grateful to WiLS and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community for allowing me to learn and grow in this field.” by Kelsie Flack My year-long fellowship with WiLS and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community, which… READ MORE
The Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) held their annual international conference in October in Temecula, California, at the Pechanga Resort and Casino, and WiLS sent me, Kelsie Flack, the Curating Indigenous Digital Collections Fellow working with the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. WiLS also sent Sarah Lundquist, the first-year fellow who worked with the Ho-Chunk… READ MORE
by Kelsie Flack, Curating Indigenous Digital Collections Fellow, WiLS WiLS and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community hosted a POWRR Professional Development Institute in Bowler this past November. The POWRR model focuses on “Preserving (Digital) Objects with Restricted Resources,” and the workshop discussed how cultural heritage professionals can ethically and safely preserve digital objects for access and use,… READ MORE
WiLS has embarked on the second year of our grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to advance the creation and preservation of digital collections in Wisconsin’s tribal archives, libraries, and museums. The three-year initiative, Curating Indigenous Digital Collections, funds a series of post-graduate fellowships to support knowledge preservation and language revitalization in… READ MORE
Over the past three years, WiLS has served as a mentor organization for two cohorts of small and rural libraries undertaking community memory projects, thanks to the Accelerating Promising Practices funding opportunity from IMLS. (For more information on the program, check out our previous blog posts here and here.) The second cohort began their work… READ MORE