THE INNU ONLINE PICTURE ARCHIVE

(link to the archive's facebook page)

While there has been movement in the museum community toward repatriation of cultural artifacts to First Nations communities, there has not been the same discourse about the return of images to the communities in which they were made.

Since August 2007, Wendy Ewald and I have been working with people in Sheshatshiu, an Innu reserve in Labrador, Canada, to collect old photographs and films about the Innu. As many in the community are connected to each other through Facebook, we started a Facebook group that served as a place for people to share their pictures and their thoughts about others' pictures.

Here are some screen grabs of the Facebook group that document this process and what people had to say.

February 3:

March 5:

March 17: