Centering collective inquiry and treaty rights in credit-bearing research strategies course — 2025

Centering collective inquiry and treaty rights in credit-bearing research strategies course

Facilitated Discussion| Wednesday, June 11th, 2025 | 1:15pm – 2:15pm EST

Where, when, and who we are are integral to the research strategies taught in a redesigned introductory general education course at a public, regional masters, predominantly white institution that sits near the northern U.S. border and on the traditional territories of the Lummi and Nooksack peoples. An 1855 treaty — in which many local tribes ceded traditional lands to the U.S. government with the promise of continual access to their usual and accustomed fishing and hunting grounds — is the starting point for research projects. More-than-scholarly sources are essential to every phase of students’ research projects, from background research; to refining inquiry questions; to finding, evaluating, and citing sources.

[This discussion will not be recorded.]

Presenter: Neah Ingram-Monteiro

Neah Ingram-Monteiro (she/they) is the Teaching and Learning and Community Engagement Librarian/Assistant Professor at Western Washington University. Their role includes integrating information literacy within community engagement courses and supporting faculty and students’ respectful engagement with place while advancing academic literacies. Neah serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries and was a 2019 ALA Spectrum Scholar.