After a month-long hiatus, “The Repatriation Files” is back with a new lineup of posts.
Castle McLaughlin
Starting next week, we will begin a two-part interview with Castle McLaughlin, Curator of North American Ethnography at the Peabody Museum of Harvard University and founding member of the Nokota® Horse Conservancy (http://www.nokotahorse.org/cms/) on the subject of her efforts to save the wild horses of the west. I wanted to get her take on the relationship between the wild horses she is working to save in North Dakota and the broader history of the dispossession and repatriation of Native ways of life on the Northern Plains. Among other things, she tells me where the equine descendants of Sitting Bull’s horses may be found, as well as what wild horses and repatriation have in common.
Back Row (Left to Right): Andrew Ferris (Princeton University), Aaron Luedtke (Michigan State University), Stephen Greenhalgh (University of British Columbia), Phillip Round, Patricia Dawson (University of Oklahoma), Lydia Heberling (University of Washington), Samantha Majhor (University of Minnesota). MIddle Row (Left to right): Shae Cox (University of Nevada Las Vegas), Deanne Grant (University of Colorado), Jennifer Meixner (University of Winnipeg), Amy Gore (University of New Mexico). Front Row: Naomi Sussman (Yale University), Layla Bermeo (Harvard University), Alex Harmon (Cornell University), Juliet Larkin-Gilmore (Vanderbilt University), and Margery Fee.
We will also hear from emerging scholars who participated in the recent Newberry Library Native American and Indigenous Studies Consortium Workshop on indigenous media—facilitated by Margery Fee of the University of British Columbia, and Phillip Round of the University of Iowa. Drawing on scholarly work by Lisa Brooks, Lee Maracle, Scott Lyons, Vine Deloria, Jr., among many others, the workshop participants applied new methodologies for exploring indigenous media to their analyses of items from the Newberry’s Ayer collection of Native American books, art, and manuscripts. The results of their research will appear in “The Repatriation Files” over the next several weeks.