This week, the Baltimore Sun reported that the Maryland Historical Trust will use a $50,000 grant from the National Park Service to document stories of Baltimore’s Indigenous populations. The project will include materials and archives from forthcoming Ashley Minner Collection at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, named for a 2008 OSI Community fellow whose research on the history of East Baltimore’s Lumbee Indian Community inspired the collection. Minner, who is currently serving as assistant curator for history and culture at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, is member of the Lumbee tribe and began collecting and archiving information on the community several years ago.
Learn more about Minner’s Fellowship, The Native American After School Program, in our Impact Photo Series, “Connecting to Lumbee Heritage Through Art” by clicking here.
