In this panel on Intersectional Studies of Race, Ethnicity, Disability, and Indigeneity, Erin Louthen and Kelci Baughman McDowell position the Mission Santa Clara Manuscript Collection within the issues of indigenous representation in archives as it relates to the Ohlone in Santa Clara

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Santa Clara University Scholar Commons Staff publications, research, and presentations University Library 10-2020 “Of Course It’s There!”: Null Archives & Ohlone Representation in SCU’s Mission Santa Clara Manuscript Collection Kelci Baughman McDowell Santa Clara University, kbaughmanmcdowell@scu.edu Erin M. Louthen Santa Clara University, elouthen@scu.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/library  Part of the Archival Science Commons Recommended Citation Baughman McDowell, Kelci and Louthen, Erin M., "“Of Course It’s There!”: Null Archives & Ohlone Representation in SCU’s Mission Santa Clara Manuscript Collection" (2020). Staff publications, research, and presentations. 212. https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/library/212 Twin Pandemics Forum Panel 4, 2-3:40 Intersectional Studies of Race, Ethnicity, Disability, and Indigeneity Panelists Sherry C. Wang, Counseling Psychology Maggie Levantovskaya, English Anna Sampaio, Ethnic Studies Angelica Navarro '20, Ethnic Studies and Sociology Kelci Baughman McDowell, Archives & Special Collections, University Library Erin M. Louthen, Archives & Special Collections, University Library This Presentation is brought to you for free and open access by the University Library at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Staff publications, research, and presentations by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact rscroggin@scu.edu. “Of Course It’s There!”: Null Archives & OhloneRepresentation in SCU’s Mission Santa Clara Manuscript CollectionKelci Baughman McDowellResearch & Instruction Services CoordinatorArchives & Special Collections, SCU LibraryErin M. LouthenUniversity ArchivistArchives & Special Collections, SCU LibraryPurposeTo recognize and address archival omissions in A&SC’s Mission Santa Clara Manuscript Collection, an action just as important as promoting access to what’s represented in our institutions' current holdings.Discussion• Archives & Special Collections’ Mission Santa Clara Manuscript Collection • “Of Course It’s There!”: Expectations of Content• Null Curriculum/Null Archives & Ohlone Representation in the MSCMC• Addressing Silences, Elision & Erasure in the CollectionArchives & Special Collections, SCU LibraryThe Mission Santa Clara Manuscript Collection• Mission Santa Clara Manuscripts Collection covers time period of 1777-1851• Includes 35 boxes of various documents such as sacramental records, Mission reports, governmental correspondence,  illustrations, sheet music, etc.• Also includes 212 printed books, aka “The Mission Library” of the padresVeduta della chiesa e casa di Santa Clara come si trovava nel 1851 quando vi entro il P. Nobili (View of the Church and House of Santa Clara as They Were in 1851 when Fr. Nobili Took Possession), Mission Santa Clara Manuscript Collection, Santa Clara University.• “Where’s the Serra stuff?”• Narratives of, about, or written by:• Fr. Junipero Serra• Franciscan friars’:• abuse, punishment, enslavement, extreme violence and murder of local Indigenous populations• Indigenous accounts of these events, life on the Mission, cultural traditions and mores, etc. DedDedication of Mission Santa Clara by Fr. Junípero Serra, 1784, Mission Santa Clara Manuscript Collection, Santa Clara University. University Archives. “Of Course It’s There!” (Expectations of the Collections’ Content)Null Archives & OhloneRepresentation in the MSCMC• What are “null archives”?• Baby Clara, baptized in 1777• Indigenous populations and “there/not there”• “Land-ing”/”finding” hope – looking beyond traditional, e.g. European storytelling• Local Ohlone communitiesThe Mission Santa Clara Manuscript Collection, Record Group 1, Santa Clara University. University Archives.“Rather than setting limitations on the project, a lack of  evidence instead can be used to expand the project by applying the principles of  the null curriculum.”Janak, 2020Addressing Silence, Elision & Erasure in Mission Santa Clara Manuscript Collection• Seeing what’s not there (a starting point):• Critically engage with research• Ask for assistance from local Ohlone groups• Invite the Santa Clara University community to participate in open dialog• Create a healing space on campusMission Santa Clara Indian Apartment, c.1784-1818. According to Father Arthur Spearman this Indian home was part of Mission Santa Clara's third site (1784-1818) and was later occupied by "Yankee squatters" (around 1850).“We might ask . . . ‘settler audiences to sit with, or dwell in, these affective spaces, to engage with narratives that consider the possibility of  one’s disappearance—narratives that Indigenous peoples have had to deal with for a very long time. Indigenous populations have had to engage with symbolic and material realities/violences that have vanished their bodies and foreclosed their possible futures for centuries, and they continue to deal with these realities on a daily basis.’”Recollet & Johnson, 2019Hunt, 2018Archives & Special Collections, SCU LibraryWhat are we gonna do about it?Our objectives• Create welcoming research environment• Engage Ohlone in our organizational culture• Achieve culture of dialog, openness, and interaction • Remunerate Ohlone for their contributionsArchives & Special Collections, SCU LibraryHumanities for All Grants (Start Small)• From California Humanities (independent nonprofit)• Quick Grants• $1,000 – $5,000• Community Dialog• Starts building relationshipsArchives & Special Collections, SCU LibraryOhlone History Working Group (Go Big)Archives & Special Collections, SCU Library• Amazing, comprehensive report originating out of the charge given by Fr. Engh (former SCU President) in 2019• We love the ideas for collaboration with Archives & Special Collections presented in the report• Go big—grant/donor for project archivist position  Bibliography• Edward Janak, (2020) What Do You Mean It's Not There? Doing Null History. The American Archivist: Spring/Summer 2020, Vol. 83, No. 1, pp. 57-76.• Karyn Recollet and J. Johnson, (2019) Why do you need to know that? Slipstream Movements and Mapping “Otherwise” in Tkaronto. Journal of Public Pedagogies, (4). Special Issue Walking in/as Publics.Archives & Special Collections, SCU LibraryWe would love to hear your ideas in the Q&A!What do you think? 

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