Grants and Acquisitions

Abstract
Special Collections and Archives (SCA) at Northern Arizona University’s (NAU) Cline Library was awarded a $349,526 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the digitization of 400 rare and unique moving images held by SCA and three regional cultural heritage partners: the Hopi Tribe, the Hualapai Tribe, and Diné College on the Navajo Nation. SCA holds early images, including river running the Colorado River, exploration of Grand and Glen canyons, and landscapes of the American Southwest. The goal of the three-year project is to preserve and make available these historically and culturally significant, at-risk analog moving images that depict people, places, and events on the Colorado Plateau. The project also supports Cline Library’s implementation of the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials, which offer guidance for nontribal institutions regarding the culturally responsive and respectful care of materials connected to Native American communities. The protocols will guide the selection of and access to films, which will be done in collaboration with tribal partners. In the third year of the project, NAU and its tribal partners will contribute a selection of the digitized films to the Tribesourcing Southwest Films project (https://tribesourcingfilm.com) for culturally appropriate description and re-narration by communities of origin.