Native Bound Unbound - The Archive of Indigenous Slavery

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Abstract

Dr. Rael-Gálvez will share Native Bound Unbound, a digital initiative centered on documenting the lives of the enslaved Indigenous people across the Americas. Thanks to the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dr. Rael-Gálvez is leading a global team in the goal to build a digital archive and repository of documents, artifacts, historic sites, and stories--imprints and cultural expressions that encompass the indelible histories of people, places, moments and time, and when drawn together, reflect a unique story of both the brutality suffered and the resilience of those that passed through it. 

Speaker bio

Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez is the executive director of Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery. Trained as an anthropologist and historian, Dr. Rael-Gálvez has served as the former Senior Vice President of Historic Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center, 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, where he completed an award-winning doctoral dissertation, the basis of a current book project.