Editors’ Choice: Authorship and Advocacy – The Native American Petitions Dataverse
4Humanities 2019-10-01
Summary:
Embedded in the (digital) archive are structures of power. The Native American Petitions Dataverse shifts those structures by attributing authorship to tribal and Native individuals in hundreds of colonial and early American era petitions and memorials. However, is attributing authorship the sole responsibility of those curating digital collections? And even more simply, how does one...