Only Simultaneous Winner of Two University of Washington Libraries Undergraduate Research Awards
Uncompromising Activism, published by LAP
As an undergraduate History major, I wrote two major papers which I, with faculty support, submitted for consideration by the UW Libraries for their research award. I was extremely pleased and excited when both papers won the award, making me the first and so far only student to win two at the same time. These papers both centered on local Native American history, and both involved large amounts of archival research using primary sources. In one paper, I focused on the cultural and economic adaptations made by both settlers and natives in one local community in the late 19th century, and in the other I studied the civil rights activism surrounding the issue of Native American fishing rights in the 1960s and 1970s in the Puget Sound area. This combination gave me experience in primary source research in both 19th and 20th century collections, and inspired me to pursue further studies in the field of archives. I think that it is particularly important to be able to think as a historical researcher when I process archival collections, create access tools, and provide reference services. My experience in performing in-depth historical research gives me exactly that background.
- The Port Madison Area in the 1870s and 1880s: An Integrated Community, as available through the UW D-Space
- Uncompromising Activism: The Fish-In Protests at Frank's Landing Award-Winning Paper, as published on the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project, as published in the UW D-Space, as published in monograph form by Lambert Academic Publishing and available on Amazon.
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