Feeding the Digital Fire: Community Memory, and Digital Stewardship

The APS welcomes the public to a hybrid keynote presentation by Angelina Jumper for the 9th Annual 2026 Digital Knowledge Workshop.

As Cultural Resources Supervisor for the Junaluska Museum, Angelina Jumper has helped guide the museum’s transition from the loss of a physical building to the creation of a community-centered digital archive. Following the loss of the museum facility, Jumper and her team developed the Junaluska Museum’s first substantial digital footprint through large-scale digitization, community-based archiving, and the implementation of a tribal Digital Asset Management system.

This work includes preserving photographs, oral histories, documents, and 3D scans of culturally significant objects while building tribal capacity for digital stewardship and advancing archival sovereignty.

Grounded in Cherokee cultural values and museum ethics, this keynote reflects on the importance of keeping cultural belongings, stories, and memory connected to families and community life. Rather than viewing archives as static spaces where “old things” are stored, this presentation reimagines digital stewardship as a living practice that sustains Cherokee knowledge, relationships, memory, and continuance across generations.

The keynote will take place on Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. ET in Benjamin Franklin Hall and will also be livestreamed. This event is free and open to the public but registration is required.

Those who are planning to attend virtually may do so via our YouTube here.

Live Spanish interpretation is being offered for this program via Zoom. For access to the translation, please join the Zoom Stream. **Note, language interpretation is not available on YouTube.**

La conferencia será interpretada en espanol para aquellos que se conecten via zoom. **Nota: La interpretación no está disponible en YouTube.**