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We are delighted and honored to have been included in the 2023 Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival's Polyphonic Communities Exhibit: "an online exhibition featuring three platforms that support community media that permits marginalized voices to communicate what they find important." We we will also be participating in a roundtable discussion about the project on April 7th.
On October October 27th Rhiannon Sorrell, Jennifer Jenkins and Melissa Dollman presented ("Tribesourcing A-V Resources: A Path to Repatriation") at The Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) conference.
On September 30, 2022, Rhiannon Sorrell, Jennifer Jenkins and Melissa Dollman conducted a three-hour workshop with San Francisco State University cinema studies students as part of the School of Cinema's The Archive Project series on "Archives and Activism." Later that afternoon, we addressed a public audience as part of the series.
June 15-18, 2022, Rhiannon Sorrell (Diné narrations coordinator), Michael Parrish (counter-narrator, Diné College), Melissa Dollman (digital projects manager and archivist), and Jennifer Jenkins (project PI), will present at the Orphan Film Symposium / Counter-Archives Conference held at Concordia University in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Our presentation is titled: "A Diné Response to Educational Film THE NAVAJO MOVES INTO THE ELECTRONIC AGE."
In April 2022, Rhiannon Sorrell was featured in an episode of the Careers in the Public Humanities podcast! "Topics discussed in the episode include recording counternarratives to the original narration tracks recorded by community outsiders for archival films showing indigenous practices, the obstacles that arise when trying to preserve indigenous cultural knowledge in digital or virtual spaces, and why the pandemic has been particularly difficult for indigenous persons in Rhiannon's community and for Navajo language revitalization efforts."
Principal Investigator, Jennifer Jenkins, was featured in this article by the University of Arizona, about the Tribesourcing project and the American Indian Film Gallery.
We are delighted to announce that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the Tribesourcing Southwest Film project with a 2022 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant which will fund our project's ongoing facilitating of counter-narrations of midcentury sponsored films featuring Southwestern and (new) Southern California Native communities, creating a new field guide to films in our and the American Indian Film Gallery’s collections, and conducting workshops!
In 2021, the journal, KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies, published a piece by the project team called "Tribesourcing Southwest Films Counter-Narrations and Reclamation."
Rewiews in Digital Humanities [Vol.2, No. 3, March 2021] wrote a helpful and valuable review of Tribesourcing Southwest Film Project!
Click here to watch webinar. Rhiannon Sorrell, Crystal Littleben, Jennifer Jenkins and Melissa Dollman in conversation with Jennifer O'Neal, University of Oregon.
