Welcome to the Stolen Relations Explore page!

Two quick words of caution:

  1. Archival documents often contain terms, phrases, and biases that reduce, minimize, or alter Native identities and views of the world.
  2. This project is not “complete” — numbers shown represent only what has been entered into this database, not the total number of Natives who were enslaved or unfree in any given area.

Stolen Relations Launch Symposium, May 10, 2025

Stolen Relations Launch Symposium, May 10, 2025

Linford Fisher

Good news, friends! The Stolen Relations project will be going live on May 10, 2025. We have planned day-long symposium to hear from our tribal representatives, Brown team members, tribal collaborators, members of the Academic Advisory Board, and others. While this project is only just beginning, this launch represents a decade’s worth of work and collaboration to get to this point. We see this event as a soft public launch, meaning that we will continue to upgrade and update the website content the the next few months (even as we develop long-term plans for sustainable growth of the information in the database).

Below is an informational poster, and here is a link to the full program. We will post a recording of the event at a later date.

Poster describing the Stolen Relations Launch Symposium on May 10, 2025.