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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. ....

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$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.
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Funding will improve access to CSWR Native American oral history collection