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Mary Jane Logan McCallum, Rose Miron. Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory., The American Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 1, March 2025, Pages 523–524, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae646
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In Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory, Rose Miron documents the creation of the largest collection of Mohican materials in the world, the Arvid E. Miller Memorial Library and Museum at Stockbridge Munsee Community located near Bowler, Wisconsin. Miron is the Vice President for Research and Education and former director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studiesat the Newberry Library, a substantial library and archives in Chicago that houses material of special relevance to Indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes area. Miron centers Indigenous Archival Activism on the story of how, why, and to what ends the Mohican Nation Historical Committee created an archive and use it to change the way historical knowledge about Mohican Nation is produced. The committee, substantially led by Bernice Miller, Dorothy Davids, and other women of the Stockbridge-Munsee community starting in the late 1960s, has had profound impacts on the teaching and learning of the history about Indigenous people. The story of the archive is inspirational and instructional for other nations who do similar work.
