How do archives best care for the Indigenous knowledge in their collections? Reflecting on a year in residence at Kislak grappling with this question, Emily will share what progress has been made collaborating with staff to make Indigenous materials at the Center easier to discover for Indigenous community members, Penn’s campus, and the general public. This talk will touch on the importance of language and good metadata, developing internal protocols, and next steps for future engagement with Indigenous scholars and communities. 

Bio 

Emily Jean Leischner is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Philosophical Society 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. To learn more about her research, you can watch her last Kislak Stacks talk and learn about her  most recent collaboration with Indigenous Nations at the APS.