1) The document discusses the Trail of Broken Treaties caravan of American Indian activists who drove from the West Coast to Washington D.C. in 1972 to generate media attention around issues facing Native communities. 2) Upon arriving, the activists were dismayed to find the politicians away campaigning. They then occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs building for seven days until some demands were met. 3) The document examines newspaper coverage of the event and American Indian activism more broadly, arguing it provides more in-depth narratives than television. Digital analysis tools are used to visualize themes and topics in the newspaper coverage.

1. Jason Heppler, MVHC 2010 Beyond the Archive Visualizing Newspaper Narratives of the Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan and American Indian Activism Jason A. Heppler University of Nebraska-Lincoln

3. Meant to generate media attention upon the issues facing Native American urban and rural communities

5. Convinced of a government double-cross, activists barricade themselves into the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters and refuse to leave until their demands are met

9. Allows us to visualize data

10. Raise new questions and interpretationshttp://www.framingredpower.org/

11. Jason Heppler, MVHC 2010 Beyond the Archive Newspaper Archive

12. Jason Heppler, MVHC 2010 Beyond the Archive Source Transcription & Markup

13. Jason Heppler, MVHC 2010 Beyond the Archive Tools for Analysis TokenX – created by Brian Pytlik-Zillig at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Wordle – free web-based word cloud generator that gives prominence to words that appear more frequently in a document Timeline – created by MIT’s SIMILE program, free timeline web application to visualize chronological events Narrative Themes and Topic Timeline – experimental visualizations being hand-built by me to visualize the distribution of newspaper themes throughout the course of the Trail of Broken Treaties See DiRT: Digital Research Tools Wiki (http://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com) for an excellent list of tools and resources available to digital humanists

14. Jason Heppler, MVHC 2010 Beyond the Archive TokenX Textual Analysis

15. Jason Heppler, MVHC 2010 Beyond the Archive TokenX Word Cloud

16. Jason Heppler, MVHC 2010 Beyond the Archive TokenX Keywords in Context

17. Jason Heppler, MVHC 2010 Beyond the Archive TokenX Highlight Keywords

18. Jason Heppler, MVHC 2010 Beyond the Archive TokenX Word Count

19. Jason Heppler, MVHC 2010 Beyond the Archive Wordle Word Cloud Cumulative word cloud of all news sources

20. Jason Heppler, MVHC 2010 Beyond the Archive Wordle Word Cloud Word cloud of newspaper reports

21. Jason Heppler, MVHC 2010 Beyond the Archive Wordle Word Cloud Word cloud of newspaper editorials

22. Jason Heppler, MVHC 2010 Beyond the Archive Timeline

23. Jason Heppler, MVHC 2010 Beyond the Archive Timeline

24. Jason Heppler, MVHC 2010 Beyond the Archive Timeline

25. Jason Heppler, MVHC 2010 Beyond the Archive Thematic Timeline

26. Jason Heppler, MVHC 2010 Beyond the Archive Narrative Themes

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32. Zotero – http://zotero.org/hepplerj

33. Slides – http://slideshare.com/jaheppler