Jennifer O’Neal, university historian and archivist at the University of Oregon Libraries, will present a talk at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, on engaging students in decolonizing research to achieve reciprocity and reconciliation with source communities. The discussion will take place in Avery Hall’s Bundy Reading Room.
O’Neal will highlight UO’s Northern Paiute History Project, a formal collaboration between the university’s Robert D. Clark Honors College and the Northern Paiute communities of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs and the Burns Paiute Tribe.
Through field trips to the Warm Springs Reservation and meetings with tribal elders and other community course partners, UO undergraduate students learn to conduct original research and oral history to document lesser-known portions of Northern Paiute history that is then shared with the tribes, as well as returning primary resources to tribal communities.
Sponsors for O’Neal’s lecture include the WSU Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, WSU departments of English and History, the Sherman and Mabel Smith Memorial Fund, the George and Bernadine Converse Historical Endowment, WSU Libraries and WSU Native American Programs.
For more information, please contact Trevor Bond at tjbond@wsu.edu.
