In Order to ‘Say What We Say:’ Archival Protocol that Attends to Indigenous Data Sovereignty

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Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric
Published
23 Oct 2026
Authors
Alanna Frost

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: As I begin a project to tell the story of a 1974 sovereign assertion, I pause to reflect on tensions inherent between the impulse to recover the rhetors that history leaves behind and Indigenous peoples’ archival protocols. Archival investigations enrich stories about the roles that historically marginalized communities and disenfran-chised rhetors play/ed in knowledge making, in coalition building, and in our collective literacy-story. But, as I reflect here, continuing to critique such interventions remains necessary when researchers engage evidence of Indigenous people’s archival presence. “The archive” is simply too implicated in contemporary, historic, and scholarly colonial…

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