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Networking Letters of Revolution (2025)
Seed Grant Summer 2025 Report Gillian MacDonald and Morgan Fox Background The launch of the beta version of Networking the Letters of Revolution project on Github pages has so far been a success. The project itself, still nascent, is building upon the idea that communication and relationships during conflict are incredibly important in terms of political capital during chaos. The project’s success is reflected in the fact that the authors were invited to unveil at the Omohundro Institute’s Digital Project Coffee Hour in April 2025. Using one main corpus of letters, Leven and Melville Papers, the project visualized this world’s…
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Neshnabé Nengosêk Kenomagewen (Potawatomi Star Knowledge)
Seed Grant Summer 2025 Report Blaire Morseau Background Neshnabé Nengosêk Kenomagewen (Potawatomi Star Knowledge) is an Indigenous-centered digital humanities effort to sustain and share Potawatomi constellations, celestial stories, and teachings about the movements of the skies. The project’s core purpose is intergenerational: to return star knowledge to everyday use among Potawatomi families, especially youth, while offering non-Native learners a respectful window into a living intellectual tradition. Rooted in Pokagon Band–led star knowledge gatherings (2019) and formalized through the Digital Scholarship Lab incubator (2023–2024), the project pairs careful cultural protocol with practical technology. Using Stellarium, a free, open-source planetarium used worldwide in…