Join presenters from WiLS on Friday, June 7th at 1:00 pm CT for a discussion of cultural considerations to be aware of as a non-Native person working with Native Nations communities. The discussion will center around building respectful and ethical relationships with a spirit of reciprocity. The presenters will share their own experiences working… READ MORE
Category: Digital Projects
WiLS Partners With Washington State University On Mellon Foundation Award Expanding Support For Mukurtu
WiLS, home of the Mukurtu Midwest Hub, is excited to share that we will partner with Washington State University on its Andrew W. Mellon Foundation award of $1.5 million to sustain the Mukurtu content management system established in 2009. The Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation at Washington State University develops Mukurtu, a free, open-source… READ MORE
ATALM 2023: Honoring and Elevating Indigenous Culture and Knowledge Systems
by Erin F.H. Hughes At the end of October, I went to Oklahoma City for the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) conference. This annual international conference was held at the Omni Oklahoma City Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City and brought together over 1,000 cultural workers. Every single time I have attended this… READ MORE
WiLS Embarks on Year Three of Curating Indigenous Digital Collections Grant
WiLS has embarked on the third year of its grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to advance the creation and preservation of digital collections in Wisconsin’s tribal archives, libraries, and museums. The three-year initiative, Curating Indigenous Digital Collections (CIDC), funds a series of post-graduate fellowships to support knowledge preservation and language revitalization… READ MORE
IMLS APP Community Memory Cohorts: That’s a Wrap!
“It was a great experience to have and one to learn from. It’s bittersweet to be ending!” – Camrin Sullivan, Lakeview Community Library, Random Lake, WI (Cohort 2) By Ellen Brooks At the end of 2022, we shared a blog post reporting on some of the outcomes from the IMLS Accelerating Promising Practices Community Memory… READ MORE