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Abstract

Materials related to the advocacy, creation, and implementation of the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials, tribal libraries and librarianship, advocacy for tribal libraries, and Dr. Lotsee Patterson (Comanche). The Protocols are best practices, standards and goals for North American archives that steward materials related to Native Americans to commit to and implement culturally responsive care and use of Native American resources held by non-tribal organizations.

Abstract Tribal libraries in the United States have become sites of cultural and language renewal, gathering places, and places to collect, preserve, and share Indigenous knowledge. After more than forty years of development, tribal libraries have become important sites of decolonization, where sovereignty and self-determination are paramount. These libraries are relatively recent tools that Native (and non-Native) people have begun to employ to collect, preserve, and transmit Indigenous knowledge...

Scope and Contents

Bibliogprahy printed from University of Michigan website, 6/1/2001.

Scope and Contents

Contains article, "Native American Libraires, Ten Years Later," by Frankie Pelzman.