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Researcher and professor at the University of Washington
Cheryl Metoyer
NationalityEastern Band Cherokee, American
Education
OccupationProfessor
Awards
  • Rockefeller Fellowship in the Humanities (2006)
  • Legacy Award (2018)

Cheryl Metoyer is an Eastern Band Cherokee researcher and professor of library and information science. Her research is focused on Indigenous systems of knowledge, especially in relation to American Indian and Alaskan tribal nations, as well as ethics and leadership in cultural communities. She holds the position of Associate Professor Emeritus and the Director of the Indigenous Information Research Group (IIRG) at the iSchool at the University of Washington.

Education

Metoyer holds bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees from Immaculate Heart College. Metoyer received her doctoral degree in library and information science from Indiana University in 1976.

Career

Metoyer has served on faculty at a number of universities in the United States. She is currently an Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington. She was previously on faculty at the UCLA Graduate School of Library and Information Science. She was the Chief Academic Affairs Officer for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Metoyer held the Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian History at the University of California, Riverside.

Metoyer worked with numerous Indigenous groups to assist with the development of their libraries, archives and museums. She was Project Director at the National Indian Education Association where she worked with tribal and state agencies to plan and develop library services, including the Mashantucket Pequot, Cahuilla, San Manuel, Yakama, Navajo, Seneca, Mohawk and the Lakota nations

Metoyer has researched and developed Indigenous subject headings for use within library and information systems, including the Mashantucket Pequot Thesaurus Project where she acted as principal investigator. The thesaurus is intended to: "construct a user-centered thesaurus, designed to reflect the information-seeking behavior of scholars and researchers who study American Indian subjects." It can be applied in a number of settings, including a museum setting as is demonstrated in an article by Littletree and Metoyer.

Using Indigenous worldviews and perspectives Metoyer's developed a taxonomy of gatekeeper theory in ethnolinguistic communities as a way to consider systems of control and their application within structures such as information systems.

Awards and honours

  • The Joint Conference of Librarians of Color Legacy Award (2018)
  • Rockefeller Fellowship in the Humanities (2006)

Advisory roles

  • Advisory Board, Newberry Library D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History
  • The Southwest Museum
  • The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
  • The National Endowment for the Humanities
  • The U.S. Department of the Interior
  • The National Museum of the American Indian
  • The University of Arizona, Knowledge River Program.
  • UW House of Knowledge Planning Committee.

Publications

References

  1. O'Neal, Jennifer (2015). "Native American Archives Special Issue: Dedication". Journal of Western Archives. 6 (1). Retrieved April 24, 2022.
  2. "Governance | Indigenous Education Institute". Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  3. ^ "Cheryl Metoyer | American Indian Studies, University of Washington". Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  4. Roy, Loriene; Bhasin, Anjali; Arriaga, Sarah K. (2011-10-10). Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums: Preserving Our Language, Memory, and Lifeways. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-8195-2.
  5. ^ "iSchool Directory | Information School, University of Washington". Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  6. "Mashantucket Pequot Thesaurus Project". UCLA American Indian Studies Center: Research. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  7. "AILA Subject Access and Classification / Thesauri". Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  8. Littletree, Sandra; Metoyer, Cheryl A. (2015-07-04). "Knowledge Organization from an Indigenous Perspective: The Mashantucket Pequot Thesaurus of American Indian Terminology Project". Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. 53 (5–6): 640–657. doi:10.1080/01639374.2015.1010113. ISSN 0163-9374. S2CID 56524564.
  9. Hastings, Samantha K. (2015-06-09). Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics: 2014. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-5012-3.
  10. "AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS Press Release". JCLC Conference 2018. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
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