{"id":2999,"date":"2022-04-24T02:31:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T02:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/saasc\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2022-05-18T07:01:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T07:01:53","slug":"indigenous-history-at-the-labriola-preservation-center-featuring-alex-soto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/saasc\/2022\/04\/24\/indigenous-history-at-the-labriola-preservation-center-featuring-alex-soto\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous History at the Labriola Preservation Center: Featuring Alex Soto"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author: Sereen Suleiman<\/span><\/p>\n

On April 20, 2022, SAASC held the last guest speaker event of the semester, in which we were honored to host <\/span>Alexander Soto (Tohono O\u2019odham), the director of the Labriola National American Indian Data Center at Arizona State University (ASU) Library. As Soto said, the center is a \u201clibrary within a library.\u201d According to Soto, the university was built on Native American land, specifically the land belonging to the O\u2019odham tribe (O\u2019odham meaning people or community), leading founder, Frank Labriola, to establish a library at the university dedicated to preserving indigenous culture. This resulted in the development of the Labriola Center in 1933. Later on, Frank set up an endowment, and the funds from the endowment enabled the center to create collections for housing indigenous records.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Since its inception in 1993, the Labriola Center has become an essential service to ASU\u2019s indigenous community. The primary purpose of the center is to support scholarship and instruction on indigenous knowledge across all disciplines at ASU. In fact, the settings and landscape cultivate this through the following:<\/span><\/p>\n