Beyond the Spectacle: Native North American Presence in Britain

2017年是1617年波卡洪塔斯（Pocahontas）去世400周年，她在肯特郡和诺福克郡都有很强的本地联系，她在英国的短暂停留和在格雷夫森德（Gravesend）的死亡既象征着英国本土关系的希望，也象征着这种关系的悲剧性终止。在她死后的几年里，弗吉尼亚殖民地的资源冲突和普遍不信任加剧了。短短三年后，马萨诸塞湾殖民地将建立起来，这同样取决于与东北海岸的土著居民建立良好关系的可能性。这两个重要的纪念日——它们对英国和土著社区现在的意义以及它们的历史细节——为这个项目的时间表提供了框架，并迫切推动人们反思英国殖民历史的遗产和影响，它与北美土著的关系，以及土著跨大西洋流动对英国和土著社区的政治、文化和经济意义。在这样做的过程中，我们为进一步考虑移民和流离失所、全球化的历史性和正在进行的发展以及国家地位和归属问题提供了一个镜头。我们的研究主要由两位美国原住民研究的资深专家——stirrup和fear - segal管理，将遵循三个关键阶段：首先是对英国、美国和加拿大关键地点的已知学术研究进行审查，并对已建立的档案进行梳理；追求在第一阶段发现的新的档案可能性，以恢复细节，也许是更密切的旅行者在特定地方停留的地方；3. 利用各种手段，包括众包、征集材料和口述历史，定位和记录高度本地化的故事、记忆、家庭传说，以及在可能的情况下，与英国本土存在和旅行有关的照片和其他文物。在开展这项工作时，我们将识别叙事中的空白，并更全面地绘制出伦敦以外的路线和网络，使部分叙事完整。研究小组每名成员所承担的四个核心项目将确定和探索特定的群体和旅行目的，这将使我们能够通过可管理和离散的研究方案建立一个全面的叙述。除了更传统的学术成果——会议论文、期刊文章、合著的书、博客文章，以及我们自己的关于欧洲原住民存在和旅行的会议——我们还计划了强调社区参与和确保公众可及性的解释和传播方法。该项目将包括：-为本地视觉，语言和音乐艺术家提供一系列艺术家驻地，在英国与学校和社区团体（坎特伯雷的Beaney画廊或工作室3，诺维奇的塞恩斯伯里视觉艺术中心，布里斯托尔的造雨者画廊和索尔福德（TBC））进行短期但持续的工作。通过工作坊，这些驻地艺术家将创作出作品，然后在不同的地点展出，如果可行的话，还会在网上展出。通过与“声音计划”的合作，音乐驻留将首次为诺福克郡和肯特郡的社区合唱团演出合唱作品。-同样，我们将与戏剧慈善机构Border crossing合作举办2019年的“起源：第一民族节”（Origins: Festival of First Nations），将该活动的重点放在该项目关注的问题上，并促进外展活动。-我们还将与大英图书馆的区域图书馆网络合作，以便进一步在英国地区传播与这些材料相关的发现。-所有这些工作将通过我们的网站、在线地图和可视化技术进行可视化记录和传播，为隐藏的档案提供在线生活，并确保在英国和北美最广泛的访问。

2017 marks the 400-year anniversary of the death in 1617 of Pocahontas, a woman with strong localized connections in both Kent and Norfolk, and whose short stay in Britain and death in Gravesend symbolize both a hope for Native-British relations and its tragic curtailment. Conflict over resources and general mistrust in the Virginia colony would escalate in the years following her death. Three short years later, the Massachusetts Bay colony would be established, again dependent on the possibility of good relationships with the Native population of the northeast coast. These two significant anniversaries-their meaning for British and Native communities now as well as their historical detail-frame the timeline of this project, and give urgent impetus to reflect on the legacy and impact of Britain's colonial history, its relationship with Native North America, and the political, cultural, and economic significance of Native transatlantic mobility-to both British and Native communities. In so doing, we provide a lens for the further consideration of migration and displacement, the historic and ongoing development of globalization, and questions of nationhood and belonging.Our research, principally managed by two senior specialists in Native American Studies-Stirrup and Fear-Segal-will follow three key phases: 1. beginning with the examination of known scholarship and the combing of established archives in the UK and in key locations in the US and Canada;2. pursuing new archival possibilities uncovered during phase one in order to recover detail that is, perhaps, more intimately local to travellers' stays in particular places; 3. making use of a variety of means, including crowdsourcing, calls for submission of materials, and oral history, to locate and document highly localised tales, memories, family legends, and, where possible, photographs and other artefacts, pertaining to Native presence in and travel through Britain. In undertaking this work we will identify gaps in the narrative as well as more fully map out the routes and networks that move beyond London, rendering partial narratives complete. Four core projects undertaken by each member of the research team will identify and explore particular groups and purposes of travel that will enable us to build a comprehensive narrative through manageable and discrete programmes of research.In addition to the more conventional academic outputs for such work-conference papers, journal articles, a co-authored book, blog posts, and our own conference on Native presence in and travel to Europe-we plan methods of interpretation and dissemination that emphasise community involvement and that ensure public accessibility. The project will incorporate:- a series of artist residencies for Native visual, verbal, and musical artists to work for short but sustained periods in the UK with school and community groups (in Canterbury's Beaney Gallery or Studio 3, the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art in Norwich, Bristol's Rainmaker Gallery, and Salford (TBC)). Through workshops, these residencies will develop artworks that will then be exhibited in various locations and, where feasible, online. The musical residency, through collaboration with the Voice Project, will result in a choral piece for performance by community choirs in Norfolk and Kent in the first instance. - Similarly, we will collaborate with the theatrical charity Border Crossings on the 2019 'Origins: Festival of First Nations', both to focus that event on the concerns of this project and to facilitate outreach. - We will also engage the British Library's Regional Libraries Network in order to further disseminate findings in British locales relevant to those materials. - All of this work will be visually documented and disseminated via our website, online mapping and visualisation technology, giving online life to the hidden archive and ensuring the broadest possible access both in the UK and North America.