[nativestudies-l] 11/5 talk: Digital partnerships with Native American communities

[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

Celebrat Native American Heritage Month
*Monday, November 5, 2007

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*Digital Partnerships with Native American Communities: Encoding 
Traditional Knowledge in New Forms for the Future*

*Tim Powell, University of Pennsylvania
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*10:30 am presentation at Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall, Yale 
University*

*Followed by lunch and conversation at the Native American Cultural 
Center, 297 Crown Street starting at 12:00 noon*


Tim Powell is the Director of the Digital Partnerships with Native 
American Communities project and a Senior Research Scientist at the 
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.  He 
works closely with the Ojibwe, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, and 
the Lenape of Pennsylvania developing digital archives of oral 
histories, artifacts, maps, and historical documents designed to be used 
by school children in these communities.  Powell has published 
extensively on the question of how traditional forms of tribal knowledge 
can (or cannot) be translated into digital media.


Sponsored by Yale University Library Standing Committee on Professional 
Awareness, Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and 
Borders, Yale College Deans Office, Native American Cultural Center, 
American Studies Program, Program in Ethnicity, Race & Migration.


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