Beyond the Spectacle: Native North American Presence in Britain

2017年是波卡洪塔斯于1617年去世400周年，波卡洪塔斯在肯特和诺福克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的死亡象征着原住民与英国关系的希望和悲剧性的削减。在她死后的几年里，弗吉尼亚殖民地的资源冲突和普遍的不信任升级。短短三年后，马萨诸塞州海湾殖民地将建立起来，这也取决于与东北海岸原住民建立良好关系的可能性。这两个重要的周年纪念日，他们的意义，英国和原住民社区，现在以及他们的历史细节框架的时间轴这个项目，并给予迫切的推动力，以反映英国的殖民历史的遗产和影响，它与北美原住民的关系，以及政治，文化和经济意义的原住民跨大西洋的流动性，英国和原住民社区。在这样做，我们提供了一个透镜，为移民和流离失所的进一步考虑，全球化的历史和正在进行的发展，以及国家和归属的问题。我们的研究，主要由两名资深专家在美洲原住民企业管理-Stirrrup和Fear-Segal-将遵循三个关键阶段：1.从审查已知的奖学金和梳理在英国和美国和加拿大的关键地点建立的档案开始;2.探索第一阶段发现的新的档案可能性，以恢复可能与旅行者在特定地方逗留更密切相关的细节; 3.利用各种手段，包括众包，要求提交材料和口述历史，以定位和记录高度本地化的故事，记忆，家庭传说，并在可能的情况下，照片和其他文物，有关土著人的存在和穿越英国。在进行这项工作时，我们将确定叙事中的空白，并更全面地绘制出超越伦敦的路线和网络，使部分叙事完整。研究团队的每个成员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计划建立一个全面的叙述。除了更传统的学术成果，如工作会议论文，期刊文章，合著的书，博客文章，以及我们自己的关于欧洲本土存在和旅行的会议-我们计划强调社区参与并确保公众可访问性的解释和传播方法。该项目将包括：-一系列的艺术家驻地为本地视觉，口头和音乐艺术家在英国与学校和社区团体（在坎特伯雷的比尼画廊或工作室3，塞恩斯伯里视觉艺术中心在诺维奇，布里斯托的造雨者画廊，和索尔福德（TBC））短期但持续的工作。通过研讨会，这些驻地将开发艺术品，然后将在不同的地点展出，并在可行的情况下，在线。音乐驻地，通过与声音项目的合作，将导致一个合唱作品的表演，由社区合唱团在诺福克和肯特在第一时间。- 同样，我们将在2019年的“起源：第一民族节”上与戏剧慈善机构Border Crossings合作，将该活动的重点放在该项目的关注上，并促进外展。- 我们还将与大英图书馆的区域图书馆网络合作，以进一步传播与这些材料相关的英国地区的调查结果。- 所有这些工作都将通过我们的网站，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尽可能广泛地访问。

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.