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Labriola National American Indian Data Center
Labriola National American Indian Data Center
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When you make a gift to the Labriola National American Indian Data Center, you support an essential service to the ASU and Arizona Indigenous community. More than a research collection, the Labriola Center empowers Indigenous students and their communities through ongoing outreach events and a variety of library support services that champion Indigenous perspectives and knowledge.
With your gift, you can help expand access to opportunities that advance scholarship and instruction on Indigenous knowledge across all disciplines and strengthen partnerships with Indigenous student groups and university support services.
For more than 30 years, the Labriola Center has provided Indigenous library services for the ASU community. By prioritizing Indigenous authors and voices, the Labriola National American Indian Data Center serves as a hub for Indigenous scholarship. The ASU Indigenous community has greatly benefited from its resources in their scholarly work and has in many instances provided access to information on Indigenous lifeways. Additionally, our engagement and outreach events support Indigenous interests while educating non-Indigenous ASU students on Indigenous cultures. The Labriola Center is one example of how libraries and archives can support Indigenous self-determination and cultural sovereignty."
Impact of donor support
Donors will help sustain the Labriola Center’s commitment to supporting the needs of ASU’s 4,000-plus Indigenous students, 70-plus Indigenous faculty and 23 regional Tribal communities with culturally relevant services and resources.
Donor support helps enhance culturally-centered signature programs that build community and sense of place, such as Labriola’s Open Mic Poetry events, Lo-Fi Beat Study sessions, Knowledge From Land engagements and the annual Labriola Center National Book Award series.
The Labriola student team does an incredible job of highlighting how Labriola is creating academic safe spaces of healing and possibility with the ASU Indigenous community. Donating to this fund allows Labriola to further partner with ASU Indigenous student groups who seek library support for their events and engagements.
The center is a resource for Tribal communities and Tribal members who seek to access the information held within Labriola’s collections for cultural reclamation and Tribal Nation building. Donating to this fund supports outreach efforts with Tribal communities in hopes of fostering partnerships centered in cultural resilience.
Your gift supports Indigenous academic excellence, provides a culturally safe space to engage Indigenous information, histories and cultures, and bolsters and upholds Tribal sovereignty for cultural resilience.
I support the Labriola Center because I was inspired by their work, as a group whose voices had been historically not listened to. Seeing the staff and students work together to create this space and provide resources and education for students is inspiring to me. Their work is important and I intend to continue to support them.