White Mountain Apache Tribe

The Nohwike’ Bágowa Museum of the White Mountain Apache Tribe will use its grant to digitize a collection of oral history and oral tradition reel-to-reel audiotapes; develop metadata, including finding aids for the audio recording collection along with previously digitized photographic collections and partially digitized paper archives; and install equipment to make these heritage resources available to museum visitors and researchers. The audio recording collection that is the primary focus of this project includes 525 tapes containing an estimated 788 hours of recordings that were collected between the late 1960s and the early 1980s. About half of these recordings have been transcribed and translated to English. Completion of this project will improve the long-term preservation of a collection of oral history and oral tradition recordings and will make the knowledge that they contain much more easily available for research.