Native Bound-Unbound: Archiving Indigenous Slavery

NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS

SPEAKER: Estevan Rael-Galvéz, Native Bound-Unbound

Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez will present Native Bound Unbound, a digital humanities project that illuminates the history of Native and Indigenous enslavement across the Americas. This project deepens and broadens our understanding of slavery— where it took place, whom it impacted, when it began and ended, and its lasting legacy for both Indigenous communities and the descendants of the enslaved.

About the Speaker

Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez is the executive director of Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery, an initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, leading a global team in the goal to document Indigenous/Native slavery across the Western Hemisphere. Trained as an anthropologist, historian, and Indigenous slavery scholar, Dr. Rael-Gálvez has served as the former Senior Vice President of Historic Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation and as the state historian of New Mexico. A native son of New Mexico, Estevan was raised on a farm and ranch stewarded by his family for multiple generations. He received his BA in English Literature and Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and his MA and Ph.D. in American Cultures from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.