Aravaipa

The Aravaipa project presents a set of primary sources documenting the Camp Grant Massacre of 1871, together with commentary and contextual information.

The Aravaipa project arose out of research by Karl Jacoby on the Camp Grant Massacre of 1871, exploring the complex cultural and historical perspectives on this event through a set of primary source documents that includes letters, trial documents, interviews, newspaper articles, and transcriptions from O’odham calendar sticks. These materials were digitized, transcribed, and encoded in TEI/XML. The project integrates these archival documents with critical and contextual materials.

CDS staff digitized the primary source materials and created the metadata to permit their ingestion into the Brown Digital Repository. They also trained Karl Jacoby and his students in text encoding, and provided advice and consultation during the transcription and encoding process. CDS staff worked with Brown’s Student Technology Assistants program to assist them in creating a project site that integrates documentary materials from the Digital Repository within a critical context.

Aravaipa is a project of the Department of History

Contributors to this project include Giovanna Roz (STA program), Ann Caldwell (CDS), Patrick Yott (CDS), Karl Jacoby (Faculty lead), Julia Flanders (WWP)

Funding for this project came from Student Technology Assistant Summer Grant