It’s the driving force behind the Manitos Community Memory Project. With a $970,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to New Mexico Highlands University, the project will continue its memory-gathering effort and community-based archive. The digital archive will be an online repository that is accessible and usable across Indo-Hispano communities in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. The archive will be developed with a growing number of individual and organizational partners from rural villages that include Abiquiú, Chimayó, Villanueva and Questa, as well as urban centers such as Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Denver and Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr. Estevan Rael-Glvez, Manitos Community Memory Project Director