Native Bound Unbound

This morning our executive director Dr. Estevan Rael-Galvez, along with Dr. Philip J. Deloria and Theresa Pasqual of Acoma Pueblo, will join Native America Calling to talk more about the launch of our project and future initiatives.

Please listen at www.nativeamericacalling.com/wednesday-no...

Honoring our collaborators @performant.bsky.social, whose rigor and skill helped make Native Bound Unbound possible.

They built a platform that connects people, stories, and places across time—a living archive built with care, precision, and imagination.

#NativeBoundUnbound #DigitalHumanities

We invite you to explore Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery, a living digital platform connecting people, places, events, and stories across the Americas.

Take a moment to explore, learn, and return often as the archive continues to grow.

👉 www.nativeboundunbound.org

The world premiere of Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery will be streamed live on YouTube this weekend.

Watch live:
Day 1 (NHCC - Albuquerque) www.youtube.com/live/xiA5Mp_...
Day 2 (MIAC - Santa Fe)
www.youtube.com/live/5r-vWjG...

Follow @natboundunbound for updates and links.

Our Santa Fe Launch on November 2, at the MIAC, is now sold out. Tickets are still available for our Albuquerque premiere event at the National Hispanic Cultural Center on November 1.

Register now to attend Native Bound Unbound's premiere event at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque with the link below:
my.nmculture.org/50247/50248

We are thrilled to invite you to the premiere of the project that we have been building—a collective effort that reflects the dedication, care, and collaboration of so many.

Please visit linktr.ee/natboundunbo... for more information and RSVP

YouTube video by 505OMATIC What's Up with the Obelisk? Part III/VII #santafe #obelisk #history #indigenoushistory

Thankful to @505omatic.bsky.social for the interview with executive director Dr. Estevan Rael-Galvez!

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We are excited to announce that we are exactly 100 days out from our official launch! Visit us at nativeboundunbound.org

YouTube video by Televisión Pública Noticias Masacre de Napalpí: el testimonio de Rosa Grillo, sobreviviente de 114 años

Native Bound Unbound is committed to telling these stories and remembering all those whose memories were forcibly suppressed or forgotten. Today we remember those at Napalpí who gave their lives.

Watch an interview from a survivor at youtu.be/Y52aRvyCmbo

Man holds a sign that says "Somos Napalpí" outside of a "truth trial" in Argentina

In 2004, exactly eight decades later, groups initiated civil action for compensation for damages and in 2014 an investigation was reopened. In 2018, a forensic anthropology team discovered four mass graves and a memorial site was built in the area.

Asamblea unánime en en 2003 el Instituto del Aborigen Chaqueño (I.D.A.CH.)

Between 400 and 500 Mocoít and Qom people were killed.

Although an investigation into the events was opened that year, corruption led to all those involved and charged to be acquitted.

While hundreds were gathered outside, a group of national police and landowners opened fire on the group. Those not killed in the initial event were later hunted down and murdered to get rid of witnesses. The police and others took human remains as “trophies” and displayed them.

Photograph of the airplane "Chaco II" that was used to drop sweets and food at Napalpí

By 1924, local leaders had organized gatherings and petitions to redress the government for grievances. On July 19, an airplane named “Chaco II” flew over the reduction and dropped sweets and food to lure people out of their homes.

Along with not being able to leave, the inhabitants of the reduction also suffered from awful housing, sanitary, and food conditions and were forced to work on cotton and sugar plantations and mills.

Napalpí was a “reduction” (similar to a reservation in the United States of America) that was created in 1911 when the Mocoít, Qom, Pilagás, Wichís, Vilelas and others were captured and forcibly resettled.

Today marks the 101st memorial of the Napalpí massacre in Argentina.

Read more about Pat here: www.facebook.com/share/p/16qo...

She was also well known in genealogical circles and volunteered her time and efforts to help others recover the names and information about their own ancestors, helping to relink the past, present, and future. The world has lost a great mind and generous soul.

We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of one of our team members, Patricia Sanchez Rau. She was involved with the project since its inception and gave many hours of research, poring over countless documents to identify entries relevant to Indigenous slavery.

Cloas’s story reminds us that the struggle for freedom in this land has always been unequal and that many of those who fought did so without being granted the rights they defended.

#NativeBoundUnbound

Newspaper ad from July 4, 1776, in The New-England Chronicle seeking the return of Enoch Cloas, an Indigenous man who deserted from the Continental Army.

While liberty and land were promised to white soldiers and British deserters, Indigenous men like Cloas were conscripted, coerced, and denied the very freedom being declared.

On This Day, July 4, 1776

As the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, The New-England Chronicle printed a second message: a call to return Enoch Cloas, a Native man who deserted the Continental Army.

#NativeBoundUnbound #DecolonizeTheArchive #IndigenousSlavery #WesternMyths #ScriptTheFuture #HistoricalJustice

At Native Bound Unbound, we’re building an archive to recover these stories and equipping scriptwriters and creators with real historical data to craft new narratives grounded in truth.

Because history deserves more than a rewrite. It deserves accountability.

Comanche raids were part of a larger system of colonial violence, not the root of it.

This 1961 newspaper ad promised a “savage story” of Comanche slavers, but ignored the broader truth:
Indigenous people across the Americas were enslaved, often by the very governments Hollywood romanticized.

🎬 Hollywood Westerns like Two Rode Together sold myths as history.

Hear from Camila about her experience as an intern for the Native Bound Unbound Project!

These narratives reveal a legacy of exploitation beneath the so-called discoveries.

#NativeBoundUnbound #IndigenousSlavery #AmerigoVespucci

𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐡𝐨𝐦 𝐈𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 ~ 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬

Amerigo Vespucci, namesake of the Americas, was not only an explorer but also a slaver. In his letters, he recounts capturing and selling Indigenous people:

“We made sail for Spain with 222 prisoners... where we sold our slaves.”