Casting Fingers, Casting Blame?
Channel: Special Collections & Archives, UIowa Libraries
Date: 2023-02-28

Iowa Bibliophiles is a group for book lovers and enthusiasts of all kinds. Join us each month as we bring in a guest speaker to talk about some aspect of book collecting, book history, book making, and more. 
 
On February 8, 2023 we sat down with assistant professor of art Meghan O'Connor from Coastal Carolina University to hear more about her project involving finger-casting, dart-throwing, stone lithography, screenprinting, and community collaboration. 

“Casting Fingers, Casting Blame?” focuses on community, play, and indirect collaboration. The project includes part of a collection of fingers cast from willing participants combined with a series of lithography and screenprinting.

Hear about how her research at the University of Iowa Special Collections and Archives, specifically with the Smith Miniature Book Collection, has benefited this work, as well as how it will continue to do so as the project moves forward.
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The University of Iowa Acknowledgement of Land and Sovereignty:
The University of Iowa is located on the homelands of the Ojibwe/Anishinaabe (Chippewa), Báxoǰe (Iowa), Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo), Omāēqnomenēwak (Menominee), Myaamiaki (Miami), Nutachi (Missouri), Umoⁿhoⁿ (Omaha), Wahzhazhe (Osage), Jiwere (Otoe), Odawaa (Ottawa), Póⁿka (Ponca), Bodéwadmi/Neshnabé (Potawatomi), Meskwaki/Nemahahaki/Sakiwaki (Sac and Fox), Dakota/Lakota/Nakoda (Sioux), Sahnish/Nuxbaaga/Nuweta (Three Affiliated Tribes) and Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Nations. The following tribal nations, Umoⁿhoⁿ (Omaha Tribe of Nebraska and Iowa), Póⁿka (Ponca Tribe of Nebraska), Meskwaki (Sac and Fox of the Mississippi in Iowa), and Ho-Chunk (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska) Nations continue to thrive in the State of Iowa and we continue to acknowledge them. As an academic institution, it is our responsibility to acknowledge the sovereignty and the traditional territories of these tribal nations, and the treaties that were used to remove these tribal nations, and the histories of dispossession that have allowed for the growth of this institution since 1847. Consistent with the University's commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, understanding the historical and current experiences of Native peoples will help inform the work we do; collectively as a university to engage in building relationships through academic scholarship, collaborative partnerships, community service, enrollment and retention efforts acknowledging our past, our present and future Native Nations.

To learn more about the four tribal nations still thriving in the State of Iowa, please check out these sites: 

Meskwaki (Sac and Fox of the Mississippi in Iowa):  
https://iowaculture.gov/history/educa... 
https://www.meskwaki.org/​ 

Umoⁿhoⁿ  (Omaha Tribe of Nebraska and Iowa): 
https://nebraskaeducationonlocation.o... 

 Póⁿka (Ponca Tribe of Nebraska):
 https://www.poncatribe-ne.org/​ 

Ho-Chunk (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska) Nations:
 https://ho-chunknation.com/