Stolen Relations is Currently Accepting Applications for Volunteer Researchers!
Stolen Relations is Currently Accepting Applications for Volunteer Researchers!
Linford Fisher
Volunteers primarily examine historical documents and/or enter information into the database. We greatly appreciate those generous enough to spend time on this invaluable work. Volunteer researchers should be detail-oriented and good communicators. We also expect volunteers to thoughtfully and humbly engage with the difficult legacy of Indigenous enslavement as part of white supremacist settler colonial […]
Behind the Scenes of Stolen Relations: Highlighting the Development Team
decolonizing research, indigenous history, indigenous rights
March 30, 2023
Behind the Scenes of Stolen Relations: Highlighting the Development Team
Laurie Tamayo
Whether it’s scrolling through our website’s intricately placed historical maps and photographs, learning more through the simple act of clicking a site subheading, or navigating through the archival database— our users owe it all to the Stolen Relations development team. Their work is the glue that holds the project together, as they design the user […]
Indigenous Freedom Suits and the Problem of the Law
history of law, indigenous enslavement, indigenous history, law
February 27, 2023
Indigenous Freedom Suits and the Problem of the Law
Zoe Zimmermann
One of the many paradoxes of Indigenous enslavement is that, in many regions, the practice flourished well after it was supposedly abolished. The Stolen Relations research team is constantly astonished at the number of cases we discover after colonies and states passed laws against enslaving Indigenous people and even after the 13th amendment. Slaveholders used […]
Our Community’s Perspective: Highlight on Lorén Spears
community, decolonizing research, indigenous rights
January 23, 2023
Our Community’s Perspective: Highlight on Lorén Spears
Laurie Tamayo
Although Stolen Relations started out in 2015 as a mostly academic project, the team members realized over time that it needed input from and collaboration with the Indigenous nations in New England who were most directly affected by settler colonialism. In 2019 the project as a whole took a more intentional turn toward community collaboration […]
Behind the Scenes of Stolen Relations: Highlighting Zoe Zimmermann, Research Assistant Coordinator
indigenous rights, native rights, research
December 22, 2022
Behind the Scenes of Stolen Relations: Highlighting Zoe Zimmermann, Research Assistant Coordinator
Laurie Tamayo
Behind the clean minimalism of a straightforward website and future accessibility of our historical database, a lot goes on. Years of strategic planning, hours of meticulous research, endless development Zooms— they’re all integral parts of the process. Today, we’ll be highlighting the backbone of the project: our research assistants. Throughout the years, we’ve had countless […]
A Brief Background on Indigenous Enslavement
indigenous enslavement, indigenous history, indigenous rights, native rights
November 21, 2022
A Brief Background on Indigenous Enslavement
Linford Fisher
The reality that Indigenous people were enslaved in large numbers was new to me when I first learned about it, and it may be to you, too. This is understandable, since it is a topic that is not really taught at all in secondary schools and even many college level classes. Most people know something […]
Welcome and Update!
Welcome and Update!
Linford Fisher
Welcome to the Stolen Relations Blog! In this space, we hope to give more information about the various aspects and activities of this project. For the next three years we will be engaged in growing and developing Stolen Relations in particular ways thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). While […]
A Brief Introduction and Update
A Brief Introduction and Update
Linford Fisher
A short intro and update.
