Cache Valley Refugee Oral History Project collection
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates
- Creation: 2015
Language of Materials
Material in English
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on use, except: not available through interlibrary loan.
Conditions Governing 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.
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.
Extent
16 interviews (41.4 GB)
Abstract
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.
Arrangement
The materials are divided into three series: Digital Collections, Interview CDs, and Associated Materials.
Custodial History
Release forms are kept in Folk Coll 58: Collection File.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Materials were provided by the Library of Congress Field School for Cultural Documentation.
Existence and Location of Copies
There is a digital collection with an Omeka digital exhibit.
Separated Materials
As all materials were born digital, the most robust portion of this collection is housed in the digital collection.
Processing Information
Processed in April of 2015
Geographic
Topical
- African Americans
- 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
- Religion
- Social Classes
- Sound Recordings
- Utah
- Title
- Guide to the Cache Valley Refugee Oral History Project collection 2015
- Author
- Finding aid/Register created by Heidi Williams
- Date
- © 2015
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Based On Dacs (Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd Edition)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid encoded in English
Revision Statements
- 2009: Template information was updated to reflect Archives West best practice guidelines.
Repository Details
Part of the Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives Repository
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
3000 Old Main Hill
Logan Utah 84322-3000 United States
435 797-8248
435 797-2880 (Fax)
scweb@usu.edu