Mapping Ancestral Ties

Cultural Affiliation and Repatriation: A Spatial Analysis Project Rylee LaLonde My digital project proposed for this year explores how cultural affiliation operates under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) through an interactive...

Tracking History with Version Control

For this blog post, CHI Fellows were given two topics to address: 1) the importance and relevance of version control in cultural heritage projects, or 2) the experience of creating a digital component for a cultural heritage institution. While both are exciting ideas...

Rylee LaLonde | 2025-2026 CHI Senior Fellow

Boozhoo kina waya/ Hello everyone! My name is Rylee LaLonde. I am a second-year PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University. My research centers on Indigeneity, traditional knowledge ways, and bioarchaeology– specifically how these...