G-90v. Indigenous Agency & Intervention in the Bibliographical Record - Advance Reading List

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  • Required Reading

    Crossman, Lisa, Erdrich, Heid. Boundless: Native American Abundance in Art and Literature. Amherst College Press, 2025

     

    Durate, Marisa. Belarde-Lewis, Miranda. “Imagining: Creating spaces for Indigenous ontologies.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, vol. 53, issue 5-6, July 2015, pp. 677-702. Access here.

     

    First Archivist Circle. Protocols for Native American Archival Materials, Northern Arizona University, 2007, www2.nau.edu/libnap-p/.

     

    Hutchinson, Elizabeth. “From Pantheon to Indian Gallery: Art and Sovereignty on the Early Nineteenth-Century Cultural Frontier.” Journal of American Studies. May 2013, Vol. 47 Issue 2, p313-2337. 25p. https://www-cambridge-org.ezproxy.amherst.edu/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S002187581300008X

     

    Indian Arts Research Center. Guidelines for Collaboration. Facilitated by Landis Smith, Cynthia Chavez Lamar, and Brian Vallo. Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research. 2019.  https://guidelinesforcollaboration.info/.

     

    The Indigenous Archives Collective, Eds. The Indigenous Right of Reply to Archives: Working towards Indigenous Sovereignty, Healing, and Justice in Archival Practice. Routledge, 2025.

     

    Littletree, Sandra, et al. “Information as a Relation: Defining Indigenous Information Literacy.” Journal of Information Literacy, vol. 17, no. 2, Dec. 2023, pp. 4–23. Open Access.

     

    Littletree, Sandra; Belarde-Lewis, Miranda; and Duarte, Marisa. “Centering Relationality:  A Conceptual Model to Advance Indigenous Knowledge Organization Practices” IN Knowledge Organization, 2020, volume 47, issue 5, pages 410-426

    • Read along with Robert Darnton’s “What is the History of Books?” (Daedalus, vol. 111, no. 3, July 1982, pp. 65–83.) and think about how the two models might connect. Available through JSTOR.
    • Also read McKee, Stuart. “How Print Culture Came to Be Indigenous.” Visible Language 44, no. 2 (May 2010): 161–86. Open Access. A useful critique of the colonial bias in major book historical works.

     

    Loyer, Jessie. “Collections Are Our Relatives: Disrupting the Singular, White Man’s Joy That Shaped Collections.” IN Meagan Browndorf, Erin Pappas, and Anna Arays, eds. The Collector and the Collected: Decolonizing Area Studies Librarianship. Sacramento: Library Juice Press, 2021.

     

    McCracken, Krista, Hogan-Stacey, Skylee-Storm. “Recognizing Colonial Frameworks”. Decolonial Archival Futures. American Library Association, Neal-Schuman, 2023.

     

    Miron, Rose. “New Narratives for Public Audiences”. Indigenous Archival Activism : Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory. University of Minnesota Press, 2024.

    National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. https://boardingschoolhealing.org/

     

    Optional viewing: Coming to Light (2002) a documentary about Edward Curtis and his photographic project The North American Indian (1907-1930), a major source for popular images of Native people.

     

    O’Brien, Jean M., and JSTOR eBooks. Firsting and Lasting : Writing Indians out of Existence in New England. University of Minnesota Press, 2010. Available through JSTOR. 

    • Read “Introduction: Indians Can Never Be Modern” and “Chapter 1 Firsting: Local Texts Claim Indian Places as Their Own”

     

    National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. “Intro to Boarding School History.” US Indian Boarding School History. 2026. https://boardingschoolhealing.org/us-indian-boarding-school-history/

     

    Wilson, Shawn. Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods. Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 2008.