Author name: Lua Powers

https://voyant-tools.org/?panels=cirrus%2Creader%2Ctrends%2Csummary%2Ccontexts&corpus=21db40de04a6e336c2aedef2e62d14c5 For a final digital history review, I decided to challenge myself and look back at my experience with Voyage. Having struggled with last week’s assignment, I tried to expand on my previous attempt at researching Hawaiian newspapers and their coverage of tourism. I tried to find trusted and recent news articles I could access […]

https://voyant-tools.org/?panels=cirrus%2Creader%2Ctrends%2Csummary%2Ccontexts&corpus=ad82833646b4e06b42c01c929d8eb02b My research question for this assignment is based on the history of American-centered newspapers that began circulated in Hawaii as settlers became more populous on the island. I wanted to find out how some of the first newspapers of a press company represented Hawaii and its politics, perhaps compared to how Indigenous Hawaiians or

For my project, I decided to look at the census data from two separate websites pertaining to approximately the same tribal area in Oklahoma. One was specifically for tribal areas and one was non-tribal based, I also doubt they would use the exact same border to define the spaces within the state. Getting this data

This is a girl’s union suit made from sewn pieces of caribou skin and hyde. It was made by the Siberian Yup’ik who often used multiple elements of animal parts for clothing in the cold living conditions. This suit was collected by San Francisco furrier Arnold Libes in 1923, the name of the maker of

I’ve really enjoyed getting to do more technical activities and technical assignments. It takes a bit of a learning curve but I’ve liked seeing the different ways how history can be taught as well as learning about the software that does it. I decided to focus this map around the first chapter of Cooling the

I ended up playing The Oregon Trail and When Rivers Were Trails and got very invested in each of the games for pretty different reasons. Both of them involved survival, Oregon emphasized the survival of your family during migration while Rivers focused on the survival of yourself while experiencing displacement, It’s a bit disturbing to

https://omekahist295.jenniferandrella.com/admin/items/show/3 https://omekahist295.jenniferandrella.com/admin/items/show/4 For Omeka, I chose two items potentially from the Blackfoot Nation that I felt represented art and culture in two different ways. The first artifact was Deerskin with Painted Decoration, the museum considers it a painting that stood out to me because it looks very similar to a conventional European painting but used

I was really into the conversation we had on Thursday about FourDirectionsTeaching.com and the idea that the land of the internet, just like physical land, is at risk of being colonized and turned into a means of capital. The intentions of Four Directions are for the absolute good of the people and were created alongside

Hey all! My name is Lua and I use she/her pronouns. I’m a senior with an ANSO major and a self-designed minor in information sciences. I chose this class as a requirement for my minor because the digitization of history is a huge topic in library/information sciences right now and I’m really excited to learn