Karuk Tribe

This grant supports five training sessions conducted by the Center for Digital Archaeology, affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, on best practices related to digitization and working with digital materials. Karuk tribal museum staff from two tribal centers (Happy Camp and Orleans, CA) will participate in the training, as well as tribal youth and community members. Following the training sessions, Karuk museum staff and community members will digitize at least 250 objects and upload the data to the Mukurtu digital platform in order to make this information accessible to the over 7,500 tribal members and descendants, as well as the global community. A secondary goal of the project is to foster intergenerational relationships through mentorships between youth and elders while digitizing and documenting stories, photographs and other cultural items. Two community meetings will be held to share information about these activities.