Author: Lillia McEnaney

The College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park (Maryland’s iSchool), invites applications for a full-time, professional track lecturer who is highly competent, energetic, collegial, and flexible to join our exciting environment. The Lecturer will teach in one or more of the areas listed below, with a course load of three classes per semester (fall and spring), and will actively participate in the life of the college through building research capacity and experiential learning opportunities in the Center for Archival Futures (CAFe).

The successful candidate will teach in our core courses and electives in archives and digital curation. Additional courses that the successful candidate can develop include courses that cover topics such as:

• Born-digital, web, and social media archiving;

• The intersection of archives, social justice, and public humanities;

• Crowdsourcing and community archives;

• Digital curation across the LAM sector and beyond;

• Data management;

• Knowledge representation and knowledge organization;

• Machine learning and AI related to cultural heritage;

• Inclusive, equitable, and enduring information ecosystems.

While these areas of expertise are of particular interest, candidates with expertise and interest in any digital curation and archives areas covered by the College’s programs are encouraged to apply.

The successful candidate will teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and engage in service to the profession and shared governance within the university. Service to the profession will include taking on a managerial role within the Center for Archival Futures (CAFe) and assisting Center leadership in achieving the goals of the center, including two main components:Increasing CAFe’s research capacity and outreach and growing CAFe’s experiential learning programs.

The course load for this position may be reduced, depending on the workload required by CAFe center management.

Expected 9-month starting salary of $80,000-$85,000 or 12-month $107,000 – $113,000 for entry rank at 100% FTE. Actual salary will commensurate with experience and starting rank.

The expected start date for this position is Fall 2022.

Via Hyperallergic, February 8, 2022

Ted Hernandez, tribal historical preservation officer of the Wiyot Tribe, said bringing home the remains of ancestors from the University of California, Berkeley’s Hearst Museum of Anthropology has been a long process, involving many people. The university as well as the US Army Corps of Engineers San Francisco District announced on January 24 that they had repatriated the remains of 20 tribal members along with 136 artifacts (mostly beads and ornaments made of shells).

“People are more open to seeing the light and the truth and what occurred during the genocide,” Hernandez told Hyperallergic. “They’re realizing that the ancestors need to come home to their people.”

The remains are of Wiyot members killed in an unprovoked attack by a group of white settlers in 1860 during what’s known as the Indian Island Massacre. After construction of a waterway in the area, a team from UC Berkeley collected the remains in 1953 and put them in storage in the Hearst Museum, where they have been for the last 70 years.

The university repatriated the remains under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), a 1990 law outlining a process for museums and federal agencies to return Indigenous remains and cultural artifacts to their descendants.

Cutcha Risling Baldy, a professor of Native American studies at Humboldt State University, agrees with Hernandez that this means a lot — for the Wiyot as well as other tribes.

More here. 

The Native American Studies Program at Colgate University invites applications for a one-year visiting assistant professor position in contemporary Native American and Indigenous topics, beginning fall semester 2022. We seek an engaged interdisciplinary candidate who combines scholarly work on pressing Indigenous issues with a demonstrated record of deep commitments to Native American communities. Preference for scholars researching in contemporary US- or Canadian-based Native, Indigenous, or First Nations contexts. The research focus is open; areas of interest include but are not limited to: Native sovereignty; resource stewardship; environmental justice; Native language politics; education and alternative epistemologies; food sovereignty; arts; media and popular culture; contemporary ethics; queer Indigenous studies; critical museum studies; and/or decolonization. Completion of a Ph.D. in Native American Studies or a related discipline or interdisciplinary field is required prior to or shortly after the date of hire.

The candidate will be expected to contribute to the curriculum of the Native American Studies Program. Colgate sustains an undergraduate curriculum of Native American studies of the Americas, with more recent openings to broader framings of global Indigenous studies. We welcome candidates who will offer an array of Native American Studies courses that draw on their expertise. The successful candidate may be expected to participate in all-university programs, including the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum.

We invite applicants to submit a cover letter (1-2 pages), a CV, an article-length writing sample, and the names and email addresses of three individuals who would be prepared to submit reference letters at a later date. Colgate strives to be a community supportive of diverse perspectives and identities and candidates may want to review Colgate’s plans in this area:

https://www.colgate.edu/about/third-century-plan/plan-diversity-equity-and-inclusion

In their cover letter, candidates must describe how their approach to teaching, scholarship, mentorship, and/or community service might support the university’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. Applications must be submitted through https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/21129  Our review of applications will begin March 10, 2022 and continue until the position is filled. All offers of employment are contingent upon completion of a satisfactory background check.

Situated on the traditional lands of the Oneida Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Colgate is a vibrant liberal arts university of 3200 students located in central New York state.

More here.

October 11, 12 & 13, 2022.

Without culture, we cannot exist as distinct and sovereign peoples, and we lose our way.The vision of the Association is to create a world where diverse Native American cultures are lived, protected and respected. The Association has been a leader in protecting Cultural Sovereignty – the things that make us who we are – through its Repatriation, International Repatriation and Protection of Sacred Sites initiatives, as well as ensuring that culture is passed on through its Youth initiatives. The Association has advocated for the protection and repatriation of cultural items and sacred lands for almost 100 years, including the development of the National Museum of the American Indian Act, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, and the Safeguarding Tribal Objects of Patrimony Act and other new legislation that will support the return and protection of our Cultural Heritage. The Association also provides training and technical assistance to Tribes and others, and is involved with repatriation of private collections both domestically and internationally from institutions, individuals and auctions.

The Association’s Annual Conferences are intended for American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Nations— tribal leaders, practitioners, elders and representatives, museums, institutions, government agencies, academics, attorneys, collectors, artists, cultural preservationists and others engaged or interested in the repatriation of cultural heritage. Repatriation is the return of Native American Ancestors and their burial items, as well as the return of tangible and intangible cultural heritage.