Native American Languages Collection Awarded NEH Grant

Dr. Raina Heaton, Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and Assistant Curator of the Native American Language Collection (NAL) at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, received the Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Foundations Grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities. This grant will provide funds for a 1-year, collaborative planning phase for the development of a large-scale, stand-alone digital platform that will make all unrestricted recordings, manuscripts, and other materials in the NAL collection available online. The NAL supervisory board will host workshops with archival & tech professionals, depositors, and tribal & community stakeholders to develop an plan for implementation. The grant will produce detailed mock-ups of a new user-oriented interface for NAL that will best serve the needs of our communities, which lays the foundation for a subsequent development/implementation grant. Congratulations to Dr. Raina Heaton and thank you for your important work.