Native Bound-Unbound

The story of enslavement in North America has followed in the wake of enslavement, expansion, and community resistance and transformation. Anthropologist, historian and Indigenous enslavement scholar Estevan Rael-Gálvez will discuss the ways digital tools and archives can help us identify, discuss and increase our awareness of the scale, extent and intimate repercussions of the practices and places transformed by enslavement and its resistance.

Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez is the director of Native Bound-Unbound, a Mellon Foundation sponsored digital humanities project centered on the millions of indigenous people whose lives were and have been shaped by enslavement. Dr. Rael-Gálvez, anthropologist, historian, and Indigenous slavery scholar, has served as the state historian of New Mexico, the executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center, and senior vice president of historic sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He has participated in public history and digital history projects involving communities linked to Mt. Taylor, Girl Scouts USA, Santa Fe, and many other broad, vast and important projects in public memory and public storytelling and narrative-making.