Speakers: Jennifer Jenkins, University of Arizona; Rhiannon Sorrell, Diné College; Melissa Dollman, University of North Carolina; Crystal Littleben, Navajo Cultural Arts Program In this NEH-funded digital humanities project, we take midcentury educational films back into Indian Country where they were made in the 1940s through 60s and record new narrations by community members and elders from the insider point of view. This “”tribesourcing””...

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Speaker:  Gerald Lawson, University of British Columbia The Indigitization Program has helped Indigenous community organizations in British Columbia, Canada, to digitize more than 12,000 cassette tapes containing precious fragments of cultural heritage. With the program poised to expand into support for several other media formats, including magnetic video recordings, Gerry Lawson reflects on Indigitization’s grassroots origins, strategic...

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Speakers: Sandra Yates, Texas Medical Center Library; Amanda Castro, Malki Museum Aaron Saubel, Malki Museum With the support of AMIA, the Community Archiving Workshop (CAW) has conducted workshops at the annual conference of the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, & Museums (ATALM) for the last two years. At the 2019 ATALM conference in Temecula, CA, Malki Museum from Banning, CA was the workshop’s feature collection. The session...

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Speakers: Jennifer R. O’Neal, University of Oregon; Michael Pahn, National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center This presentation will examine the traditional Indigenous knowledge systems that are at the center of Native American lifeways and culture. We argue that it is imperative that these traditional knowledge systems must be the foundation for the overall care and management of Indigenous archives in non-tribal repositories....

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  Speaker: Guha Shankar, Library of Congress This presentation looks at the historical production and contemporary re-reproduction of indigenous cultural expressions through a case study of the Ancestral Voices project, a joint initiative of the Passamaquoddy Indian nation, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and the digital tools, Mukurtu CMS and the Traditional Knowledge attribution labels. The presentation will take...

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The Films of Expo 67 – 50 Years Later (pdf) Steve Moore, Library and Archives Canada Stéphanie Côté, Cinemathèque québécoise Film was an integral part of the Expo 67 experience. Held in Montreal 50 years ago during Canada’s centennial year, Expo 67 is considered the most successful world’s fair of the 20th century. Some of that success can be attributed to the innovative use of moving images: experiments in presentation,...

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AMIA 2016 Conference Presentations & Recordings

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During AMIA 2016, the Do It Yourself & Community Archiving stream of sessions was opened free to the community as a symposium and live-streamed.

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