The Indigenous Chicago Project
Date and Time
Location
NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS
SPEAKER: Rose Miron, Newberry Library, Chicago
Dr. Rose Miron joins the Native Cultures of the Americas Seminar to discuss the history, development, and process of creating the Newberry's Indigenous Chicago Project. Miron co-led the initiative, which began after community conversations with the Chicago Native community. The project has since been developed and led by Indigenous communities residing in and around Chicago, with ancestral connections to the Chicagoland area.
Since its launch in September of 2024, the Indigenous Chicago Project has quickly become an example of a successful large-scale, community-driven public history project.
About the Speaker
Dr. Rose Miron is the Vice President of Research and Education at the Newberry Library. She has been at the Newbery since 2019, serving as the Director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies for 5.5 years before stepping into her current role. A non-Native historian, her research explores Indigenous history across the Great Lakes, especially related to public history and memory. In addition to academic publishing, Dr. Miron has also worked on and written about several public history projects. She is co-director of a multifaceted public history project called Indigenous Chicago, which is an extended collaboration between the Newberry Library, Native community members, and tribal nations with historic ties to the Chicago region. Prior to joining the Newberry, she served as the Program Manager for the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, where she primarily worked on the development of their digital archive project. Her work on repatriation, digital projects, and representations of Indigenous history in the public has been published in both scholarly and public-facing mediums.