Makah Indian Tribe

On behalf of the Makah Indian Tribe, the Makah Cultural and Research Center (MCRC) will focus its grant activities on Makah Head Start students from three to five years old and the elders of the community. The project staff will teach the children how to create their own culturally based books to take home, instilling at an early age a sense of pride in reading, writing, and storytelling. Elders, parents, and teachers will read and tell culturally relevant stories to the Head Start students throughout the year. In addition, 75 elders will be taught how to document their own life stories in scrapbook-style “Makah Memories” books. The elders will keep the originals; copies will be added to the MCRC collection. Makah history will be preserved by documenting memories of the elders, who are primary sources of cultural knowledge and wisdom.