OUR MISSION
The mission of the Red Lake Tribal Archives is to collect, preserve, protect, and make accessible items significant to the history, culture, and governance of the Red Lake Nation for future generations.
The Holdings:
The collections include documents ranging from Tribal resolutions, laws, treaties, former government correspondence, reports and minutes, tribal enrollment records, tribal programs and events, maps and blueprints. There are also drums and other spiritual items, clothing, traditional art, newspaper articles, books, photos, and recordings.
Tribal Archives Plans/ Current Status:
Inventory:
The first step was to hire an archivist consultant to give professional recommendations to develop an inventory and collections management plan, and to train staff on how to handle the materials. This was completed in 2021.
We are conducting an inventory pilot project on a small section of the archives to estimate how many staff hours are needed to complete a comprehensive inventory. The progress of the pilot project is finding the objects in the donation binder and entering them into the tribal archives shared drive, labeling the shelves, and taking photographs of the objects that have been inventoried.
Preservation Plan:
The next steps will be to hire a preservation consultant to conduct a general survey of the collections, assess our storage environment, policies and procedures and develop a conservation and long-range preservation plan for the Red Lake Tribal Archives.
Community Access:
To move forward with planning for the future of the archives, we will continue working towards a comprehensive inventory and taking further steps towards preservation and planning access of the collections to the public.
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Tribal Archives Staff
Floyd “Buck” Jourdain, Director
Jasmine Gonzalez
Violet May
Wendy Greenberg
For any questions contact: Floyd Buck Jourdain, Director of Equity, Cultural Education, and Archives
floyd.jourdain*AT*rlnc.edu
(218) 382-1491
Values
At RLNC, we use, follow, encourage, and support the 7 Ojibwe Values of:
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