Hi everyone, the NAGPRA Comics team is working on several issues. The one that is furthest along right now is a collaboration with White Earth Nation. You can find out more about our work together on this latest issue and how it led to a return of affidavits from 1909 to White Earth Nation in a post at Ohio History Connection's Blog.
Drawing Together: Comics and the Return of Museum Collections to White Earth Nation "On January 4, 2019, Jaime Arsenault, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer of White Earth Nation in Minnesota, contacted me. “I have stories!” she wrote. This was in response to a conference presentation about NAGPRA Comics that invited tribal members to get in touch about their experiences with repatriation. I co-produce NAGPRA Comics with Sonya Atalay and John Swogger. NAGPRA Comics is a community-directed, collaboratively produced comic series that tells true stories about repatriation from tribal perspectives. We have since worked with Jaime to develop a new comic that includes the story of a repatriation of a birch bark scroll to White Earth Nation from the Andover Peabody Institute of Archaeology and the repatriation of a drum from the Berkshire Museum. It was important to Jaime that we explain the period of time when these repatriated items were taken from their community. During this time, Jaime explains, many treasured items left White Earth in different ways, and “all under duress.” The scroll at Andover, for instance, was a gift for safekeeping during difficult times, and a collector took the drum at the Berkshire Museum. This story is also important because it shows how museums can help each other in support of Native communities and their claims..." Click HERE to continue reading and see some archival photos and some draft pages of the comic. Below are some draft pages from John Swogger, also at the blog post. And as the end of the blog post notes, a big thank you to Matt Benz at Ohio History Connection, Ryan Wheeler and Marla Taylor at the Andover, and Jason Vivori at the Berkshire. Marla Taylor wrote a blog post that links to this one with some additional introduction and links to their past work with White Earth Nation here.
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