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Cache Valley Refugee Oral History Project collection, 2015

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Fife Folklore Archives
Title
Cache Valley Refugee Oral History Project collection
Dates
2015 (inclusive)
Quantity
16 interviews, (41.4 gb)
Collection Number
UUS_FOLK COLL 58
Summary
Cache Valley, Utah is the home of Burmese Muslim, Karen, and Eritrean refugees. Documenting and preserving their stories is an important goal of Utah State University's Fife Folklore Archives (FFA). In May 2015, USU's FFA and Folklore Program, with help from the Karen community, hosted a Library of Congress Field School for Cultural Documentation: "Voices: Refugees in Cache Valley." Field school students worked to document Cache Valley's recent refugee communities. This collection, Folk Coll 58: Cache Valley Refugee Oral History Project, houses the physical recordings, release forms, and associated materials of the interviews which took place during this field school.
Repository
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu
Access Restrictions

No restrictions on use, except: not available through interlibrary loan.

Languages
Material in English
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Biographical Note

In May 2015, USU's Fife Folklore Archives and Folklore Program hosted "Voices: Refugees in Cache Valley," a Library of Congress Field School for Cultural Documentation. This three week summer field school trained students to document and deposit the important stories of Burmese Muslim, Karen, and Eritrean refugees in the Fife Folklore Archives at Utah State University's (USU) Special Collections and Archives which resulted in this collection, Folk Coll 58: Cache Valley Refugee Oral History Project.

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Content Description

This collection contains the physical recordings and associated materials of the Cache Valley Refugee Oral History Project collection. A product of the 2015 Library of Congress Field School for Cultural Documentation: "Voices: Refugees in Cache Valley" made possible by Utah State University's Fife Folklore Archive and Folklore Program, with help from the Karen community, and the Library of Congress.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Permission to publish material from the Cache Valley Refugee Oral History Project collection must be obtained from the Curator of the Fife Folklore Archives and/or the Special Collections Department Head.

Preferred Citation

Initial Citation: USU_Folk Coll 58: Cache Valley Refugee Oral History Project collection; Fife Folklore Archives, Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.

Following Citations:USU_Folk Coll 58, USUSCA.

Alternative Forms Available

There is a digital collection with an Omeka digital exhibit.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The materials are divided into three series: Digital Collections, Interview CDs, and Associated Materials.

Processing Note

Processed in April of 2015

Acquisition Information

Materials were provided by the Library of Congress Field School for Cultural Documentation.

Related Materials

Omeka digital exhibits are also available: Burmese Muslim Refugees in Cache Valley, Utah

Eritrean Refugees in Cache Valley, Utah

Karen Refugees in Cache Valley, Utah

Separated Materials

As all materials were born digital, the most robust portion of this collection is housed in the digital collection.

Custodial History

Release forms are kept in Folk Coll 58: Collection File.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

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Subject Terms

  • Anthropology
  • Cache Valley
  • City and Town Life
  • Folklore and Folklife
  • Home and Family
  • Language and Languages
  • Logan
  • Military
  • Multiculturalism
  • Oral Histories
  • Photographs
  • Refugee camps|zThailand
  • Refugees, Eritrean|zCache Valley (Utah and Idaho)
  • Refugees, Karen|zCache Valley (Utah and Idaho)
  • Refugees, Rohingya|zCache Valley (Utah and Idaho)
  • Refugees|zBurma|zKaren State
  • Refugees|zCache Valley (Utah and Idaho)
  • Refugees|zEritrea
  • Social Classes
  • Utah

Corporate Names

  • JBS Swift & Company
  • Mae La (Refugee camp)
  • United States--Office of Refugee Resettlement

Geographical Names

  • Eritrea
  • Karen State (Burma)

Finding aid/Register created by Heidi Williams
2015

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