Kathryn Walkiewicz

Our project will create a digital edition of a collaboratively-written 19th-century manuscript Ojibwe literary magazine, making a significant work of early Indigenous literature publicly accessible. Working with Tribal partners and an advisory board, we will develop digital tools that innovatively illuminate the contexts of translation, exchange, and appropriation crucial to the magazine’s production yet obfuscated in contemporary scholarship. With a 2023-25 planning grant, we developed editorial and workflow policies, built relationships with community partners, and digitized and transcribed all magazine issues. An ACLS grant would let us build on this success and enable us to build our digital platform and develop resources for reading and teaching the Muzzeniegun with our collaborators.