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Title:

Honouring Our Ancestors Gifts

Agreement Number:

LHOV-02-029

Agreement Value:

$50,025.00

Agreement Date:

Jun 2, 2021 - Feb 28, 2022

Description:

This project aims to preserve and protect some of Manitoba’s most important recordings of Indigenous cultural and linguistic history. When the Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre (MICEC) was created by leaders and activists in 1974, its founders saw that Manitoba was at a pivotal moment in history. Armed with recordings and historical accounts of the major events of the time and empowered by a rising tide of Indigenous activism and political involvement, Indigenous leaders in Manitoba had amassed a collection of items and needed a place to house them. MICEC was created to do just that. The Honouring Our Ancestral Gifts project will enable MICEC to truly honour the gifts Elders, language speakers and cultural knowledge holders left to our Centre. This project will build capacity within the organization as well as help make these gifts more accessible to our community by allowing others to hear and honour the voices of our ancestors and the legacy they left us. This project aims to preserve these important recordings for all Manitobans to enjoy by creating a database of digital files with which to create future content and curatorial projects.

Organization:

Library and Archives Canada

Expected Results:

Development of a policy document outlining the organizational guidelines, priorities and parameters around the process to digitize the collection of audiovisual recordings

Collection organization and in-house digitization (350 hours of digitized VHS and cassette recordings)

Outsourced digitization (550 hours of digitized materials)

Cloud-based storage system set up with file system and organizational functions for digital collection

Location:

Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA R2W 3C9

Reference Number:

129-2021-2022-Q1-LHOV-02-029

Agreement Type:

Contribution

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Type:

Indigenous recipients

Recipient's Legal Name:

Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre Inc.

Program:

Listen, Hear Our Voices

Program Purpose:

Listen, Hear Our Voices supports First Nations, Inuit, and Métis governments and non-profit organizations in: 1) digitizing existing documentary heritage related to Indigenous languages and cultures, and 2) building the skills, knowledge and resources to do this work in their communities.