Yale Indian Papers Project

Where: Bass Library, Room L01
When: Friday, November 8th; 11.30a for the food, 12p for the talk

Our Friday, November 8 LuxTalk in Bass Library, Room L01, will feature lunch at 11.30a and a talk at noon on the NEH grant–winning Yale Indian Papers Project.

A number of institutions that have significant New England Indian collections (Yale University, the Connecticut State Library, the Connecticut Historical Society, the Massachusetts Archives, and the National Archives of the United Kingdom) have organized into a cooperative endeavor called The Yale Indian Papers Project to address these problems by publishing an electronic database known as The New England Indian Papers Series.

The Series represents a scholarly critical edition of New England Native American primary source materials gathered presently from the partner institutions into one robust virtual collection, where the items are digitized, transcribed, annotated, and edited to the highest academic standards and then made freely available over the Internet, using open-source software. By providing annotated transcriptions, the Project’s editors provide the Series users with useful information within a well-researched and balanced context necessary to understand the complexities of the historical record.

Thus, the Series offers students, educators, researchers, Native American tribal members, and the general public, visual and intellectual access to significant historical knowledge for the purposes of teaching, scholarly analysis, and research.  In doing so, the Series furthers the Project’s mission and the missions of its cooperative partner institutions to encourage new scholarship, and promote a greater understanding and appreciation of New England’s earliest culture among a broader segment of the general public.

Read more about the project at the project site or their blog.

Paul Grant-Costa is the executive editor of the Yale Indian Papers Project. Having spent nearly 35 years in conducting historical research, he has served as the Senior Researcher at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center and partner in Greymatter, a historical research consultancy. As a lead historical researcher on a number of federal recognition projects, he has worked with tribal councils, tribal historians, lawyers, and anthropologists across New England.

Tobias Glaza is the assistant executive editor of the Yale Indian Papers Project. He is a former Senior Researcher at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, and has worked with Indian communities on a variety of natural resource, land use, museum and history projects both in New England and the Upper Midwest.

Please join us this Friday, November 8, in Bass L01 for lunch and a conversation on this multi-institutional project bridging digital humanities, scholarly communication, and library collections.

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