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Date(s) - 03/28/2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Drawing on lessons learned from collaborating with Native American and First Nations peoples, in-resident researcher Emily Jean Leischner will share stories and snippets from her initial survey of Indigenous knowledge in the Kislak Center archives.
March 28, 2025, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Virtual (link will be sent to registrants)
Open to the Public
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Hosted by: Kislak Center
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Like many archives and libraries worldwide, the Kislak collection contains written documentation of invaluable knowledge from Native communities across the globe. Drawing on lessons learned from collaborating with Native American and First Nations peoples, Emily will share stories and snippets from her initial survey of Indigenous knowledge in the archives, and propose directions for their future stewardship and engagement with the Indigenous communities it came from.
About the Speaker
Emily Jean Leischner is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Philosophical Society, graduate of the University of British Columbia, 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. She has been working collaboratively with the Nuxalk First Nation since 2016, and is the former co-host of Using and Refusing Museums on Nuxalk Radio.