Bay Mills Indian Community

The Bay Mills Indian Community of Brimley, MI, will be focusing on two high-priority needs with this grant. The first will be to document traditional knowledge and language for future generations. A videographer will record the Bay Mills Community College’s Ojibwe Language Immersion classes as well as oral history interviews with tribal elders, cultural events, and workshops. This material will be available on a computer kiosk at the community library on the Bay Mills Community College campus as well as on the Internet and in DVD format. The second priority is to establish a branch library at the Brimley Area Public School. When local budget cuts left the school without a librarian, volunteers stepped in. With this grant, the Bay Mills Indian Community has agreed to provide staffing for the Brimley School library so that students can receive quality library services so important to their academic success.