A Dawnland Voices Wordle
My colleague James Finley produced this word cloud by running the entire manuscript for Dawnland Voices–the 600-page anthology of regional Native writing I’ve just finished editing–through a tool...
View ArticleThe Boston Children’s Museum as a Native Literary Hub
This is the paper I’ll present tomorrow at MLA in Boston. You can see my slides here. Sovereignty and Sustainability: The Boston Children’s Museum as Native Literary Hub Today I’ll be discussing an...
View ArticleIndigenizing Wikipedia
Today there is an international feminist takeover of Wikipedia; you can follow it on Twitter using #tooFEW. It was a project proposed by Moya Bailey, who notes a profound deficit of women’s history and...
View ArticleDays of DH at Northeastern University, March 18, 2013
Here are the slides and text for the “lightning talk” I’m to give tomorrow at Northeastern for their “Days of Digital Humanities” fest: I’m a literary historian by training, and as a scholar of Native...
View ArticleCan the Digital Humanities Be Decolonized?
I was recently party to a debate, conducted mainly on blogs and Twitter, about an online journal’s decision to put a cluster of essays through an extra round of editing. If that sounds arcane, it is,...
View ArticleMore on Indigenizing Wikipedia. . .and Open Peer Review
I feel very lucky to have my short essay on “Indigenizing Wikipedia” included in a new book-in-progress: Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning. This is a collection of essays...
View ArticleExperiment in Online Book Discussion: Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time
I’m trying to renew a little experiment with online book discussion. A couple of years ago I tried starting an online book group for people interested in reading New England Native American authors....
View ArticleA Crowdsourcing Question: Indigenous Small Presses
I’m working on a long footnote for a review essay due soon, and thought I would put this out there–a brief history of Native-led small presses in the U.S. I am most interested in small presses run by...
View ArticleTribal Newsletters and Periodicals in New England
One project I’d like to pursue someday soon is a full database of regional indigenous periodicals. There are loads of them, and they include fantastic writing by tribal members that you just don’t find...
View ArticleHistory of the Native Web
Amy Earhart has been collecting links to early, activist web-based projects focused on people of color, a project that has reminded me how many sites I used to turn to regularly in the 1990s. These...
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