ᏓᏗᏬᏂᏏ / Dadiwonisi /We Will Speak Community Event and Documentary Screening (Nov 2024): An independent study project focused on cultural language revitalization of the Cherokee language to bring the 2023 documentary filmmakers Schon Duncan and Michael
McDermitt to the St. Louis community.
The project included planning and coordinating a community event, engaging with collaborative partners that included the Missouri History Museum, University of Missouri, St. Louis, and the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies. Between 100-200 people were in attendance.
Rhetorical Analysis of 3 Native American Sites in St. Louis (2024) using Storymap. This project analyzes Sugarloaf Mound, Chief Pontiac plaque, and the Big Mound monument, all in downtown St. Louis, Missouri
A Place of Pride: A Look at a Historic Downtown Neighborhood
Griot Museum Exhibit (2022) and collaborative project for a MA class titled Museums and Communities. With the input of community members, this exhibit commemorates and honors a neighborhood that no longer exists due to racial housing practices and disinvestment. The neighborhood has now been replaced with the National Geospatial Agency headquarters.
Exhibit Panel Examples (4’x8′)
Segregation in St. Louis (2022)
A Storymap tour of 10 sites across St. Louis that tell a segregation story and interpret each statue or site with critical questions to help make meaning for the guests.
Latinx Oral History Essay- Motherhood (2023)
An essay that draws from oral history interviews I conducted with 2 Latina women and discusses their perspectives on motherhood and children and as mothers. The oral histories are part of the LatinxKC Oral History Project.
Story Stewardship at Werowocomoco video(2023)
Video project showing the Werowocomoco site in Virginia in the beginning stages of developing story stewarsship practices when telling Indigenous stories. This video represents early research in my Ed.D. process.
Carol S Fitzsimmons 