Jennifer O'Neal, Assistant Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies

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The Indigenous Knowledge and Data Sovereignty Research Center is dedicated to upholding the rights of Indigenous Nations to control their information about their peoples, land, and resources, with a specific focus on tribes and cultural heritage centers in Oregon and the greater Pacific Northwest region to strengthen sovereignty and self-determination. With an Indigenous research approach, students can participate in researching and contributing to archival research, oral history, public exhibits, briefing reports, trainings and workshops. Through respectful and reciprocal partnerships, this work centers on producing research requested by and for Indigenous communities on tribal land. Activities include visiting tribal communities, conducting interviews with tribal members, developing exhibits, researching and uploading content to tribal databases, and contributing to specific projects based on current events happening in tribal communities, including undamming rivers, land back, return of archival and museum collections, revitalizing Indigenous languages, and many other environmental, legal, media and public history projects.