Miami Tribe of Oklahoma

The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma will use its grant to continue two successful projects and add new initiatives in response to community needs. Project staff will continue an oral history project that is documenting the ways in which local tribal leadership have worked together over the years. They will also enhance the multi-tribe library consortium known as the CHARLIE Network by adding library automation software and providing a circuit-rider librarian. New initiatives include providing access to genealogical information through databases and resource materials; starting an online book club for Miami tribal members nationwide focusing on Miami themes; producing calendars highlighting the CHARLIE libraries to increase community awareness of their services; implementing a summer reading program in collaboration with the Leonard Learning Center; and producing a self-published booklet of Miami poetry to be used at the tribe’s summer Miami Language Camp as a model for students to express themselves in the Miami language.