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Celebrate Native American Heritage Month 2014

NAL Display 2014 Join the OMA and OSU’s Native American Longhouse (NAL) Eena Haws in celebrating Native American Heritage Month 2014! This year, NAL student staff member, Tus Henry, curated a display for the library featuring the NAL’s history and services … Continue reading

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Social Justice Tour of Corvallis

This Spring Term the OMA was incredibly excited to work with the class Ethnic Studies 553: Ethnohistory Methodology taught by Professor Natchee Barnd. The students used archival resources both in the OMA and the Benton County Historical Society to showcase the histories … Continue reading

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Marie Norris Papers

The OMA has a new collection: the Marie Norris Papers! The collection consists of materials documenting Norris’ life as a Native American activist and is made up of a letter, newspaper clippings, publications, a sound recording, and two copies of the manuscript … Continue reading

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“Histories of Students of Color at OSU” Campus Tour Guidebook

This Fall Term the OMA collaborated with the U-Engage class ALS 199 “Untold Stories: Histories of People of Color in Oregon” to create a campus tour regarding the histories of OSU’s students of color, and the tour guidebook is now available! … Continue reading

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Sundown Towns in Oregon Display, Fall 2013

Sundown Towns in Oregon Display, 2013 This Fall term Professor Jean Moule again taught her course TCE 408H “Sundown Towns in Oregon” and she invited the OMA to be a part of the classroom experience! Natalia Fernández, OMA Archivist, worked … Continue reading

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Celebrate Native American Heritage Month!

In the Spring of 2013 Natchee Barnd, an Assistant Professor with OSU’s of Ethnic Studies and Native American Studies as part of the School of Language, Culture, and Society, and Natalia Fernández, OSU’s Oregon Multicultural Librarian, interviewed seven student staff … Continue reading

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The OMA at ATALM 2013

This June the OMA traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to attend and present at the 2013 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums! The Association for Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) hosts an amazing conference each year that … Continue reading

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OSU’s Native American Longhouse Eena Haws (Beaver House) Staff Oral History Interviews, Spring 2013

“Eena Haws” means “Beaver House” (beaver image by Haida Nation artist Clarence Mills) In a collaborative effort between the OSU Native American Longhouse Eena Haws (NAL), Natchee Barnd, an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and Native American Studies as part of the School … Continue reading

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The OMA at NWA 2013

AABC and NWA Conference 2013 The OMA was busy at this year’s AABC/NWA conference! Earlier this month the Archives Association of British Columbia (AABC) and the Northwest Archivists (NWA) held a joint conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the OMA … Continue reading

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Minorities in the Barometer, the 1960s

Microfilm Boxes Containing the 1960’s Barometer Last year the OMA began a project to search through The Daily Barometer (day-by-day) to find as many minority issues/multicultural related articles as possible, scan them, and make them available online. We started with the 1970s and just completed … Continue reading

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