Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Alberta Indigenous media archive being digitized

"Bought for a buck, now priceless"
JASON FRANSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Read about how this archive preserves valuable cultural and linguistic knowledge:
















"The archive is an invaluable record of voices that have long passed, said Crowfoot. They tell stories both traditional and personal — tales of residential schools, for example.There's powwow music and there are country songs. Phone-in shows from remote Indigenous communities. Crowfoot thinks there's a feature film as well. And it's priceless evidence of how the Cree language has changed over nearly 60 years."

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