NIBSDA is a digital archive made available on the world wide web. Information about NIBSDA or content included therein may also be made available through social media.
Use of social media platforms are for informational purposes only and do not represent the official views of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition or its programs, including but not limited to the Digital Archives, and staff included therein.
The NABS accepts no liability for the content, accuracy or spelling errors included on any websites or platforms online. Any views expressed on this site are those of the individual post author only.
Unless otherwise noted, NABS holds a copyright to the material on any websites or platforms online that includes images.
Any websites or platforms online may provide external links for informational purposes only.
The appearance of external hyperlinks on any websites or platforms online does not constitute endorsement by NABS of the linked websites, or the information, products or services contained therein.
NABS does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these websites or platforms online nor does it take responsibility for any loss or damage suffered as a result of using any information published on any of the pages linked to a third party website.
NABS has the right to remove any comments deemed inappropriate, including profanity, language or concepts deemed offensive and those that attack a person individually.
The content contained in NIBSDA Digital Platform may potentially be triggering or bring up secondary trauma or PTSD; we encourage individuals to seek counseling or forms of healing that are appropriate for you if you experience any stress related to boarding school history. Indigenous people are warned that these Digital Archives contain images, names, and references to deceased persons.
Exposure to information, however, about assimilation, violence, and abuse may also trigger traumatic responses for some. We also know that some Indigenous peoples have cultural protocols around discussing and viewing information or photos of deceased individuals. Therefore, these materials are only digitized and made available online in coordination with a warning about traumatic content and content related to deceased individuals and a list of available resources such as crisis support lines, suggestions for self-care, and other types of support for finding counseling services.
Will not link metadata or images found on Tribal websites, webpages, blogs, social media, online catalog interfaces or Elevator DAMS Instance without prior approval.
Intellectual Property (IP) Rights and Take-Down Guidelines
NABS will only upload and make available digital surrogates via any online public interfaces which fall within the public domain as determined by Copyright law. As of 2024, the public domain year is 1928 or earlier.
NABS will only upload and make available digital surrogates via any online public interfaces which fall within the public record designation or have been approved for publication by copyright holders.
NABS will only upload and make available digital surrogates or informational resources via any online public interfaces which fall within the Digital Commons designation.
All non-published IP works that appear in online catalog (such as poetry) or social media platforms have been granted permissions to do so by the creator or responsible families.
Any digital representations of primary source material that is published in the online public interface falls either under the copyright designation of the NABS or any partner-institutions of whom created the digital surrogates.
Any materials containing traditional knowledge are the intellectual and cultural property of the respective affiliated Tribal communities, groups, or organizations, and we will therefore make these materials available according to those Tribal entities’ cultural protocols regardless of their current copyright assignment.
NABS does not assert primary ownership of any cultural knowledge specific to any Tribal community, group, or organization.
Requests for take-down must be made to the NABS Director of Digital Archives
NABS will make a decision by 3-4 business days and decisions can be appealed.
Rendering these requests will start with the following procedures:
Director of Digital Archives receiving the take-down request with a decision being made within 3-4 business days.
Appeals to decision rendered should be submitted to Director of Digital Archives who will confer with the NABS CEO to resolve.
If appeal is denied and contested further, decisions will be forwarded to the NABS Executive Committee to resolve.
If appeal is denied and contested further, decisions will be forwarded to the NABS Board of Directors to make the final decision
Parties who have questions or who wish to contest the use of specific works may contact:
National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition
2525 E. Franklin Ave., Suite 120
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55406
history@nabshc.org
SERVICES
Reference & Research Assistance
NABS staff conducts basic research and assistance in navigating the digital archives. Please note that the scope of these services does not include the compilation of digital collections or bibliographic information, transcriptions, translations, or genealogical research.
We will need pertinent information such as subject, individual, exact date/known date, location. Please prepare this information in advance. We process inquiries in the order they are received, and we strive to respond in a timely manner.
For contributed collections, we will refer users of the digital archives to the source repository for further assistance.
Image Use
NIBSDA includes archival digital surrogate collections that have been vetted for upload and made accessible for research purposes. These collections, if included on NIBSDA’s platform, can be utilized at the researcher’s discretion and observance of copyright law (please see Rights, Reproductions, & Re-Use Statements).
Collections featured in external websites, where NIBSDA redirects users to, must obtain permission from source repositories for any public use of an image. This includes exhibition/display of an image in a public space and/or publication of an image. Source institutions must be credited as the image source in any public use of an image.
Please contact the originating source repository for high-resolution images and photographs which may be available. Further questions by email only—please contact NIBSDA staff at: history@nabshc.org. Include the image title(s) and identifier number(s) for all items that you are interested in. Provide your name, e-mail address, and telephone number with all requests.
NIBSDA collections should be cited with the following credit line:
National Indian Boarding School Digital Archive, National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, sourced from: [record name, record date, collection name, page number, source repository name, city, state]. Date Accessed: [date], Retrieved from: [URL]
Example:
National Indian Boarding School Digital Archive, National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, sourced from: Case File for John Smith, 1987-2000, Papers of John Smith, page 3, National Museum of American Indian, New York, New York. Date Accessed: April 30, 2020. Retrieved from: https://nibsda.elevator.umn.edu/asset/viewAsset/4444
These services are fulfilled via phone and/or email.
Provide your name, e-mail address, and telephone number with all requests: 612-354-7700 | history@nabshc.org
RIGHTS, REPRODUCTIONS, AND RE-USE STATEMENTS
Public Record:
Government records that are not restricted and are accessible to the public are Public Record. Material falling under this designation that fall within NIBSDA’s collection scope may be published via online platforms after due diligence of records review has been administered regarding NABS Tribal Digital Archives Data Sovereignty Initiatives.
Copyright:
It is the responsibility of the user accessing the National Indian Boarding School Digital Archive (NIBSDA) collections to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS), Board of Directors, staff, contractors, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.
Fair-Use Statement:
Regarding Digital Preservation activities, the NABS contends that Fair-Use does apply in situations where copyright ownership could not reasonably be determined (i.e. “orphan works”). Any digitization of primary source content held in NIBSDA or NABS’s Resource Database is permitted due to its extra-copyright law status as a Library and/or Archive as described in “U.S. Code: Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 108 of the United States Copyright Law”. (SEE: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/granule/USCODE-2011-title17/USCODE-2011-title17-chap1-sec108).
Creative Commons:
Digital surrogates and/or cataloged descriptive metadata are digitized and published to the NIBSDA platform with the express permissions of rights holders to do so. If digital surrogates and metadata are made available and licensed under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC by the source repository, NIBSDA will indicate this to the user within the catalog record of relevant archival material. Under this license NIBSDA will provide appropriate credit and will not use the material for commercial purposes.