CREDITS: Preapproved for 1 ARC (Academy of Certified Archivists), 1 CEU (ARMA International), and 1 GARA Study Hour (GARA Certificate Program)
GARA CERTIFICATE CORE COMPETENCY AREAS: "Advocacy and Outreach" OR "Archives and Long-term Preservation"
DURATION: 60 Minutes
OVERVIEW: This webinar presentation focused on Residential School archival records with an emphasis on understanding their context, importance, and uses. Additional weight was placed on understanding colonial archival contexts vs. community archival contexts in relation to Residential School records. Participants of this webinar learned about how archival records can support community healing, reconciliation, and education about Residential Schools.
PRESENTER: Krista McCracken, Researcher/Curator, Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre, Algoma University
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Krista McCracken is an award-winning public historian and archivist. They work as a Researcher/Curator at Algoma University’s Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre, in Baawating (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe and Métis people. Krista’s research focuses on community archives, Residential Schools, access, and outreach.
In 2020, they won the best article in Indigenous History prize awarded by the Canadian Historical Association’s Indigenous History Group for their article “Challenging Colonial Spaces: Reconciliation and Decolonizing Work in Canada’s Archives.” They have two ongoing book projects, Decolonial Archival Futures with Skylee-Storm Hogan-Stacey and Trans and Gender Diverse Voices in Libraries with Kalani Adolpho and Stephen Krueger.
Krista is currently pursuing their PhD in Library and Information Management via the Gateway PhD program with Manchester Metropolitan University and San Jose State University. They are working with supervisors Dr. Michele Villagran and Dr. Kirsty Fife and their research focuses on Indigenous library cataloging practices in Northern Ontario.
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