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Fresh funding aims to revitalize Indigenous oral history | iNFOnews | Thompson-Okanagan's News Source

Susan Montoya Bryan February 09, 2021 - 12:46 PM A major effort is getting underway at several universities, tribal museums and libraries around the U.S. to digitize the oral histories of thousands of Native Americans that were collected a half century ago as part of a project initiated by the late philanthropist Doris Duke. The New York-based Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced Tuesday that it has awarded more than $1.6 million in grants to help with the translation, transcription and indexing of the recordings so they can be accessible to Native communities, students and the wider public. The goal is to create a website that will act as a central hub where visitors can access the materials, some of which include reel-to-reel magnetic tapes that have been collecting dust in library archives and university repositories for decades. Plans also call for expanding the collections with contemporary voices.

Arizona State Museum works to digitize Native American oral histories

Arizona State Museum works to digitize Native American oral histories With the help of a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Arizona State Museum is working to digitize tapes from 50 years ago. and last updated 2021-02-22 10:32:13-05 TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — With the help of a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Arizona State Museum is working to digitize tapes from 50 years ago. There are over 600 interviews with members of the Native American communities around Southern Arizona. The interviews cover a wide range of topics about what life was like. "These recordings are going to talk about native species that might no longer exist, fish that used to live in the rivers that are no longer there," Molly Stothert-Maurer, Head of Archives at Arizona State Museum said. "It's going to talk about how to find water in the desert and the struggles you had living in Arizona."

$1.6 Million Grant Will Support Digitization of Native American Oral Histories

$1.6 Million Grant Will Support Digitization of Native American Oral Histories The newly announced funding will help universities make decades-old interviews widely available   Reprinted with permission from SmartNews/Smithsonian. The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a disproportionate toll on Native American communities and, in particular, the Indigenous elders who often act as keepers of historical knowledge. To help keep... You might be interested in:

Fresh funding aims to revitalize Indigenous oral history