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Title:

Cheslatta Carrier Nation Digitization Project

Agreement Number:

LHOV-03-053

Agreement Value:

$25,000.00

Agreement Date:

Apr 1, 2022 - Aug 31, 2023

Description:

Our project's main and immediate goal marks the first phase of our preservation efforts, focusing on the critical steps needed to ensure the sustainability of Cheslattat’en oral and written history, and our documented relationship with the land. To preserve our unique and irreplaceable collection, we will inventory, organize, digitize, and store the materials according to archival standards, and eventually catalogue all of our current one-of-a-kind items.

Organization:

Library and Archives Canada

Expected Results:

Item preparing and packaging for sending to outsource digitization and receiving for approximately 20 boxes of textual records, 75 audiocassette tapes, 75 VHS tapes, 10 large-format maps

Physical storage and labelling of all digitized material

Cataloguing digital audio video, map digital collection

Approximately 75 audiocassette tapes; 75 VHS cassette tapes; 100 large-format, hard copy paper maps; 20 archive boxes of hard copy textual documents

Location:

Burns Lake, British Columbia, CA V0J 2P0

Reference Number:

129-2022-2023-Q1-LHOV-03-053

Agreement Type:

Contribution

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Type:

Indigenous recipients

Recipient's Legal Name:

Cheslatta Carrier Nation

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.