Nooksack Indian Tribe

The Nooksack Indian Tribe will promote community, literacy, education, employment, and ongoing reading enjoyment by providing books, materials, services, and programs through its library services. It will purchase basic subscriptions, supplies, internet subscriptions, and books to maintain and improve core library services. It will support digital literacy classes for Tribal elders and teens, after school tutoring for ages K-12, and books to go along with the summer reading program for tribal youth. The library will also continue to work on the “Stories of the Nooksack Elders” documentary stories in pictures and film. The library engages teens to interview the elders about their lives and then hangs photographs from this project at the library. The project will provide direct benefit to the nearly 1,930 tribal citizens within its project service area with a special emphasis on tribal elders and youth.