Rematriation Project Team

The Rematriation Project is focused on developing capacities for digital archiving and stewardship of digital heritage in Northwest Alaska. Led by an Iñupiaq-led and serving tribal organization, Aqqaluk Trust, in Kotzebue, Alaska, in partnership with a team of scholars (itself led by an Iñupiaq scholar from Kotzebue) from Virginia Tech, North Carolina State University, and American College of the Mediterranean, we operate on a foundation of community-first, community-led decision making. We seek to empower Indigenous communities with self-determined data and research sovereignty to collect, control, interpret, and benefit from data that originates from their communities.