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  • U of I researchers work with Native Americans to curate to oral histories

    Jun 12, 2023 9:00 am by Jodi HeckelOutreach
    The materials collected by anthropology graduate students in the late 1960s include a map of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. Map of Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, 1950, Box 48, Doris Duke Indian Oral History Program Archives, Record Series 15/2/32, University of Illinois Archives.

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    • The materials collected by anthropology graduate students in the late 1960s include a map of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. Map of Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, 1950, Box 48, Doris Duke Indian Oral History Program Archives, Record Series 15/2/32, University of Illinois Archives.

    Researchers at Illinois are working with Native American tribes across the country to digitize oral histories and ethnographic materials collected from tribal members and to make them accessible online.