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Native America Calling: A new archive tells the story of Indigenous slavery

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

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A new archive tells the story of Indigenous slavery

A team of researchers are actively sifting through archival documents, artifacts even artwork to expand the story of Indigenous slavery.

The Native Bound Unbound project includes interactive maps, digitized documents and recent interviews with descendants whose ancestors endured enslavement.

The publicly-available digital archive aims to document every instance of Indigenous slavery in the Western Hemisphere to illuminate where and when slavery took place, and the lasting effects for Indigenous communities and their descendants.

An illustration titled “Indian du Canada” depicting an enslaved Meskwaki person held in slavery in colonial France in what is now known as the United States. Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France

Guests on Native America Calling

Philip J. Deloria (Yankton Dakota), professor of history at Harvard University in Massachusetts

Theresa Pasqual (Acoma Pueblo), executive vice president of Indigenous Affairs at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Colorado and the former tribal historic preservation officer for the Pueblo of Acoma in New Mexico

Estevan Rael-Galvez, executive director of Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery

We invite you to explore Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery – a living digital platform connecting people, places, events, and stories across the Americas.

Visit https://t.co/xsbblaRIkK and come back often. This is only the beginning.#NativeBoundUnbound… pic.twitter.com/QUVjar7ks1
— Native Bound Unbound (@NatBoundUnbound) November 3, 2025