Countering Native American Stereotypes Lecture With Erin Fehr (Yup’ik), Archivist, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Erin Fehr (Yup’ik) presents an illustrated lecture drawn from the Hirschfelder-Molin Native American Stereotypes Collection at the Sequoyah National Research Center at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.

“Noble Savages, Indian Princesses, Drunken Indians and Vanishing Americans: Resources for Countering Stereotypes and Prejudices,” a lecture Fehr first delivered at the 2014 annual meeting of the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums, presents and examines just a few dozen of the 1500 objects collected over 40 years by scholars Arlene Hirschfelder, who worked at the Association on American Indian Affairs for 20+ years, and Paulette Fairbanks Molin (White Earth Ojibwe), the former director of American Indian Educational Opportunity Program at Hampton University.