[SOA] Promoting Principles for Indigenous Archival Repatriation – Learn about a New SAA Standard and/or Submit Your Testimonial

[Pine, Candace]

This past August, the Society of American Archivists (SAA) Council
approved "Principles
for Indigenous Archival Repatriation”
<https://www2.archivists.org/standards/principles-in-indigenous-archival-repatriation-pinar>
(PINAR) as a professional standard. PINAR marks the culmination of a two-
year effort by the SAA Archival Repatriation Committee
<https://www2.archivists.org/groups/archival-repatriation-committee>,
launched in 2022, to create professional guidance supporting the ethical
return of archival materials to Indigenous communities.

To read more on the development and passage, check out our Archival Outlook
piece “Adopting Principles in Indigenous Archival Repatriation.”
<https://mydigitalpublication.com/article/Adopting+Principles+in+Indigenous+Archival+Repatriation+as+a+New+SAA+Standard/5114810/861179/article.html>

What’s next? What can you do?

   1. Come to Our Annual Meeting and Standards Meeting

Our Component Group/Annual Meeting will be May 15th, 4pm EST, and is open
to all. To attend and learn more about archival repatriation, please
register here
<https://connect.archivists.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=036ba920-f1e6-476e-b615-019d21a25d6b&Home=%2fevents%2fcalendar>
.

We will also be presenting alongside the Protocols for Native American
Archival Materials
<https://www2.archivists.org/groups/native-american-archives-section/protocols-for-native-american-archival-materials-information-and-resources-page>
at the webinar There's a Standard for That on May 14th from 12pm-1:30pm.
Register here
<https://connect.archivists.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=ca9cebe3-0591-4571-a53d-019d21c114b0&Home=%2fevents%2fcalendar>
to
attend.

We hope these meetings will help spread the word about this new standard,
and inspire you to start conversations at your institution.

   2. Submit an Archival Repatriation/PINAR Testimonial

Our next big goal is to promote the integration of PINAR into archival
practice by showing how this work is happening in the field, and challenges
institutions and communities face in undertaking it. To do that, our
Committee is seeking testimonials about repatriation, rematriation,
copyright or full transfer of Indigenous archival materials to traditional
owners, as defined by PINAR.

We are collaborating with the Native American Archives Section to collect
these testimonials as part of a revised case study series. To learn more
about the new series, go to our microsite
<https://www2.archivists.org/groups/archival-repatriation-committee/archival-repatriation-committee-testimonials>
or check out the NAAS Case Studies site
<https://www2.archivists.org/node/23269>. If you have been involved in an
archival return of some kind, or you’re interested in submitting, submit a
preliminary Google Form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdU1Zcxq0HXNQfsKWV1ASRgew_mr0i8b3IL9WHbk7rn_eG--A/viewform?usp=header>
response, and our team will be in touch.


On behalf of SAA's Archival Repatriation Committee,

<http://miamioh.edu/>

*Candace Pine (she/her)*

*Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarian*

*Miami University*

King Library

151 S. Campus Ave.

Oxford, OH 45056

513-529-2594 | https://spec.lib.miamioh.edu/home/
*Miami University is located within the traditional homelands of the
Myaamia and Shawnee people, who along with other indigenous groups ceded
these lands to the United States in the first Treaty of Greenville in 1795.
The Miami people, whose name our university carries, were forcibly removed
from these homelands in 1846. **In 1972, our relationship between Miami
University and the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma began and evolved into a
reciprocal partnership, including the creation of the Myaamia Center at
Miami University in 2001. **The work of the Myaamia Center serves the Miami
Tribe community and is dedicated to the revitalization of Miami language
and culture and to restoring that knowledge to the Myaamia people. **Miami
University and the Miami Tribe are proud of this work and of the Myaamia
students who have attended Miami since 1991 through the Myaamia Heritage
Award Program.*
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