Because I teach at Penn, am a Contributing Scholar at the Penn Museum, and Director of Native American Projects at the American Philosophical Society (APS), I am in a unique position to provide my students access to a wide variety of archival materials, many of which are linked in surprising ways.  For most of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, Penn was home to some of the greatest anthropologists—Frank Speck, A. Irving Hallowell, Anthony F.C. Wallace and Dell Hymes.  All of these scholars gave their papers to the APS, while Speck and Hallowell also donated artifacts to the Penn Museum.  The collections fit together very nicely, even though the institutions have rarely worked cooperatively.  Students have a plethora of opportunities to connect the two collections in a variety of interesting ways.  I have also directed three large grant projects at the APS to digitize images and audio recordings related to Native American culture.  I am thus intimately familiar with the collection and, now that they are have been digitized, the material is much more accessible to students.

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Much of my work involves outreach to Native American communities, so I am constantly writing grants that focus on returning digital surrogates of archival materials to their community of origin.  In 2005, I started a website entitled <em>Gibagadinamaagoom: An Ojibwe Digital Archive</em>  that houses digital materials and is used by Ojibwe high school and tribal college students throughout the state of Minnesota.  Several years later, I started a sister site, entitled <em><a href="http://gibagadinamaagoom.info/">Digital Partnerships with Indian Communities</a></em>, that allows the students to “publish” their work.  When their work is polished enough (this usually entails some substantive editing) it is then made available to Native communities via the <em>Digital Partnerships</em> website.  Both sites are designed with the Drupal content management system and are maintained by the School of Arts and Sciences Computing at Penn.  This provides long-term sustainability.  Because Drupal is so flexible, students can learn how to design digital exhibits on the website that incorporate highlights of the archival materials, thus making them more accessible to Native communities.  This requires training and an outstanding student, many of whom receive grant support from Penn or other sources to work with me on these projects.