Acknowledgements

As Asian Americans, kapamilya recognizes our complicity and benefit from hegemonic political, economic, and cultural systems that construct settler colonialism. We recognize that the University of Washington and the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture reside upon the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples, who have always been here and will continue to be here for Time Immemorial.

Thank you to Lauren Ray and Maryam Fakouri from UW Libraries for helping us get started on creating an ebook and learning about cultural heritage as it relates to copyright. We’re grateful for Dominique Alhambra, collections manager for Oceania and Asia, all the UW undergraduate and graduate students, and alumni that joined in the sessions and helped facilitate discussions. Thank you to Joseph Allen Ruanto-Ramirez, for your insight into the Indigenous Philippine collections and how we view Philippine history, folktale, music, and mythology.

A very special thanks to Dr. Rick Bonus of American Ethnic Studies, who spearheaded student interest in the Philippine collections and created the ebook, Critical Filipinx American Histories. Your guidance in the many ways that students can think about and reflect upon museums has helped shape how collections staff can support these ideas. It’s encouraged us to be innovative with the ways we can work with communities, as we continue to add to our repertoire of community engagement and collaboration methods.

Gigantic thanks to Holly Barker, curator of Oceania and Asia who we can always count on to be continuously, enthusiastically, and incredibly encouraging of community-engaged and community-collaborative work at the Burke. This could not be possible without your advocacy, advice, and leadership! And finally, an immense thank you to those who began Research Family in 2013 to cultivate spaces for Pacific Islander students, which paved the way for the sprouting of numerous other knowledge families on campus (such as this one)!

Read more about Research Family:

Tamngin, Rachael and Barker, Holly. 2021. “Research Family: Bridging accessibility divides in academic research through Indigenous Oceanic paradigms.” UW Department of Anthropology, November 19, 2021. https://anthropology.washington.edu/news/2021/11/19/research-family-bridging-accessibility-divides-academic-research-through-indigenous