Emily Legg is a Cherokee Nation citizen and an Associate Professor of Composition and Rhetoric at Miami University in Ohio. Her research centers Indigenous methodologies of storytelling as a decolonial and materialist research practices in writing and rhetoric, and she brings these methodologies to her historiographic recovery work as well as her teaching and research in Professional Writing, and Digital Rhetorics. Her most recent book is titled Stories of Our Living Ephemera: Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907, and in it Dr. Legg develops Indigenous storytelling methodologies and applies Cherokee cultural teachings to archival research on the Cherokee National Seminaries during the nineteenth century in order to counter and resist narratives of assimilation.