Marcella A. Ernest is a graduate instructor and academic research assistant in the American studies department at the University of New Mexico. She is working on a scholarly and creative project that engages Native American ethnographic material, photography, and sound recordings. At Yale, she will access the Native American Sound Recordings and the Gilbert Papers at the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library; “Songs of the Chippewa,” created by Frances Densmore, at the Yale Divinity Library; and the Western Americana Collection at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
