Native Village of Eyak (Ilanka Cultural Center)

The “Voices of Our Elders” project at the Ilanka Cultural Center will provide a digital exhibition accessible to all museum guests and the community that will provide educational, cultural, and historic information. The leadership of the Native Village recognized the need to document the history—particularly the oral history—of the community elders before their memories were extinguished through age or passing. This grant will allow the village to appropriately utilize previously collected oral histories by enhancing them with imagery and technology and provide a permanent collection of that history within the museum and archives.