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SUMMARY:Indigenous Studies Workshop: Our Beloved Kin - A Digital Awikhigan
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DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n     Awikhigan is an Abenaki word that originally 
 referred to writing &amp\; drawing on birchbark but has evolved to include
  bound books\, letters\, and maps\, as well as works of art. Now it encomp
 asses digital storytelling and GIS mapping. In this workshop\, Lisa Brooks
  will introduce a digital awikhigan\, inviting participants to follow mult
 iple narrative/image paths that run parallel with her new book\, Our Belov
 ed Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War.  After framing the project w
 ithin lenses drawn from digital humanities and Indigenous studies\, Brooks
  will guide users through the complex historical geography of this sprawli
 ng conflict\, which transformed Native and colonial space in New England\,
  using an array of primary sources\, including historical documents\, maps
 \, and contemporary place images. She will highlight interactive digital m
 aps\, created for the project\, that trace historic trails and waterways\,
  Native towns and territories\, colonial settlements\, and crucial sites o
 f refuge and subsistence. Multiple intertwined digital “paths” form a 
 rhizomatic structure\, enabling a decentralized\, nonlinear “reading” 
 of the conflict and its context.  Lisa Brooks is Associate Professor of En
 glish and American Studies at Amherst and the author of Our Beloved Kin: A
  New History of King Philip’s War (Yale University Press 2018). Her firs
 t book\, The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast (Un
 iversity of Minnesota Press\, 2008)\, received the Media Ecology Associati
 on's Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Cultu
 re in 2011. Although deeply rooted in her Abenaki homeland\, Brooks’s wo
 rk has been widely influential in a global network of scholars. She served
  on the inaugural Council of the Native American and Indigenous Studies As
 sociation (NAISA)\, and currently serves on the Editorial Boards of SAIL a
 nd Ethnohistory. She also works on the Advisory Board of Gedakina\, a non-
 profit organization focused on Indigenous cultural revitalization\, tradit
 ional ecological knowledge\, and community wellness in New England.  Profe
 ssor Brooks requests that everyone brings or has access to a digital devic
 e for the workshop (laptop\, tablet\, or desktop)\, and that they explore 
 the digital project in advance of the event.  The workshop is co-sponsore
 d by the Princeton American Indian Studies Working Group (PAISWG) and the 
 Center for Human Values. \n\n\nhttps://cdh.princeton.edu/events/2018/03/in
 digenous-studies-workshop-our-beloved-kin-digital-awikhigan/
LOCATION:Center for Digital Humanities\, Firestone Library\, Floor B
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