CBH Talk | Stolen Relations: Recovering the History of Native American Enslavement

The Stolen Relations project is a tribally collaborative initiative to recover, interpret, and share with the public the long-hidden history of Native American enslavement. Developed over the past decade and formally launched in May 2025, the project brings together a growing database of individual records alongside contemporary Native perspectives, artwork, music, and other resources for tribal and public use.

Join this presentation and discussion with two of the project’s originators – Brown University’s Linford D. Fisher, Principal Investigator, and Lorén M. Spears, founding member of the Tribal Advisory Board. Together, they will trace the history of Native enslavement and reflect on how the Stolen Relations project invites larger questions about decolonizing archives, confronting the erasure of Native histories from our national narratives, and reconnecting with this buried history.