Catawba Indian Nation

The Catawba Indian Nation’s project will upgrade material artifact storage for the Catawba Nation Archives' (CNA) through the purchase & installation of five museum-grade storage cabinets for their collection of Catawba pottery, basketry, and other material artifacts. Grant funds will also support professional digitization of Catawba language materials currently only available on microfilm; oral histories on obsolete media such as digital audio tapes (DAT); and, microcassettes, as well as still images only available as 35mm slides. This project will allow pottery and other material artifacts to be more easily accessible while providing safe and preservative storage, and make rare linguistic materials, oral histories, and images more widely and easily accessible via the Catawba Nation Archives Online (archives.catawbaculture.org).