Transcript Part 2 #infoshow16 Presentation – Kirsten

Data Analysis
Examples
Example 1
How are Native
Americans referred
to in the treaties?
Most Common Words – Row Structure
Most Common Words
Organic Structure
Indian
Nation
Indians
Nation
United States
Nations
President
Tribes
PARTIES
AGREE
Identifying the Current Conditions of Native American Nations
There are 567 federally recognized nations
 American Indians
 Alaska Natives
 Native Hawaiians
National Congress of American Indians (n.d.). An Introduction to Indian Nations in the United States. Retrieved from http://www.ncai.org/about-tribes/indians_101.pdf, p.2-9
Federal Register. (May 4, 2016). Bureau of Indian Affairs of the US Department of Interior, Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible To Receive Services From the United States Bureau of Indian
Affairs , Vol. 81, No. 86. Retrieved from https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-05-04/pdf/2016-10408.pdf
Identifying the Current Conditions of Native American Nations
The Western Shoshone have issued
their own passports since 1982
“This possibility may be better understood by referring to
the political enteties of Monaco or Vatican City, which are
domestic soverign nations that continue to exercise
dominion over their lands within the borders of a larger
soverign.”
Reference: Shown Harjo, S. (2014). Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations. Washington D.C.: National Museum of American Indian, p.34
Wikipedia. (20 April 2016). Western Shoshone. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Shoshone
Example 2
What is
established in the
treaties?
All Words: CLOTH
Identifying the Current Conditions of Native American Nations
Reference:
http://www.dyarrow.org/indige
nous/leon.htm
“…treaty cloth still arrives by United Parcel
Service to our territories during the fall of
each year. This has been ongoing since 1794,
although the cloth has gone from bolts of
calico to unbleached cotton and now to
inexpensive muslin.”
Leon Shenandoah Tadodaho, Chief of the Six Nations, holds cloth that the United States
government delivers each year to maintain the Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794
Image and text: Shown Harjo, S. (2014). Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations. Washington D.C.: National Museum of
American Indian, p.58. Text: Jemison, JGP. (n.d.). Book Review: Treaty of Canadaigua 1794 200 Years of Treaty Relations Between the Iroquois Confederacy and the
United States. New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/j/jemison-treaty.html
Example 3
Which type of
pressures did the
Native American
Nations receive when
they signed the
treaties?
Some pressure was received when they
were vulnerable before the winter
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Identifying the Current Conditions of Native American Nations
“Over the last 45 years, there have
been 1,000 atomic explosions on
Western Shoshone land in Nevada,
making the Western Shoshone
the most bombed nation on earth.”
Winona Laduke
2007 - National Women’s Hall of Fame
1994 - nominated by Time magazine as
one of America’s fifty most promising
leaders under forty years of age
Resource of text: Laduke, W. (1999). All Our Relations. Native Struggles for Land and Life. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, p.3
Image of map: Wikipedia. (20 April 2016). Western Shoshone. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Shoshone
Image and information of author: Honor the Earth. Retrieved from http://www.honorearth.org/speaking_engagements
Example 4
Which rights
are established
in the treaties?
All Words: FISH
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Nations & Treaties
Lumni
Nation
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Lumni
Nation
Identifying the Current Conditions of Native American Nations
Largest coal-export terminal is
denied permit because it violates
treaty-protected fishing rights of
the Lumni Nation
May 10, 2016
TREATY WITH THE DWAMISH, SUQUAMISH,
ETC., 1855
The right of taking fish at usual and
accustomed grounds…
Lummi Nation has close to 5,000 members and is one of the largest tribal fishing fleets in
the country
Text: Corps: Coal terminal violates tribal rights, won't permit, Retrived from http://dnews.com/news_ap/washington/corps-coal-terminal-violates-tribal-rights-won-tpermit/article_a18438c3-5f5d-538b-b07e-725ee03eaa2c.html
Image: Retrieved from Coal Train Facts, http://www.coaltrainfacts.org/lummi-nation-xwechiexen-cherry-point-gathering
Conclusion
Data analysis and visualization diagrams
which represent historical treaties
facilitate the identification of concepts that
may help understand the current
conditions of Native American Nations
Conclusion
The Digital Humanities field also helps reveal
underlying social & cultural structures that
continue to resonate in our post colonial age
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Oklahoma State University
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LINK
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/tocyr.htm
Thank you!