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3/27/2019

Welcome to the Native Northeast Research Collaborative

Dear Friends,

In the past few months, you may have noticed something different when you accessed our website or document archives, the Native Northeast Portal.

After close to two decades as the Yale Indian Papers Project, we've changed our name and our website, but not our mission as a digital humanities and social justice project.

To recover and provide greater access to the history of the Indigenous people(s) of the Atlantic Northeast for the purposes of research, teaching, scholarly analysis, storytelling, and community-based projects.

The Native Northeast Research Collaborative better captures the nature and scope of the work we do. And it's less ambiguous. We're not about papers of Native people at Yale, nor do we edit only Native manuscripts from Yale.

Rather, this is what we are about. Here are our accomplishments so far:

New England Indigenous Community: Inclusion & Network Building

Empowered a dozen Native communities to manage, share, and exchange their digital heritage in culturally relevant and ethically-minded ways
Supported at least seven tribal research projects, helping to build capacity, affirm sovereignty, and enhance cultural programs
Trained three tribal interns in digital humanities practices

Academic Community: Pedagogical Outreach

Mentored over 40 undergraduate and graduate students with class papers, projects, senior essays, masters theses, and dissertations
Supported faculty instruction with undergraduate and graduate classroom presentations at 11 universities and colleges
Assisted museums and libraries with identification of collection items for research and exhibits

Global Academic Community: Tribally-Mediated Scholarly Resources

Digitized, transcribed, annotated, and published thousands of previously unpublished primary documents from the US and UK, to support research, scholarship, and a variety of cultural initiatives 
Provided world-wide access to primary source materials to assist hundreds of scholars and historians in the creation of more than 18 books, 14 articles, 20 dissertations, 6 exhibits, and curricula development in a growing number of schools across the country
Held or participated in 4 national teachers training workshops in Native American & Indigenous Studies topics