Native Village of Eyak

The Native Village of Eyak's Ilanka Cultural Center and Museum will create an augmented reality digital map of its traditional lands using the tribe's traditional names. The project will bring together five tribal members with traditional knowledge and language to identify sites within the tribe's traditional boundaries on Google Maps. The information will be incorporated into an existing digital kiosk in the museum. When visitors touch the western place name text on the digital kiosk, the program will bring up the traditional place name and either text or video, in members' words and voices, about traditional uses of the site. The "Centering Ourselves through Time" project will allow tribal members to center themselves in their role as indigenous first peoples within their traditional homelands by returning traditional place names to today's maps and linking them to historical uses.