Seldovia Village Tribe

On behalf of the Seldovia Village Tribe, the Seldovia Museum Library will implement the “In Our Own Words” oral history project to document local family histories that reach back many generations in this small, tight-knit community. Community members will receive training in oral history documentation and then conduct interviews with community elders and record community Sharing Circle events. Project participants will also inventory and digitize existing materials belonging to Seldovia Village Tribe and community members, adding them to the oral history collection. Much of the material gathered will also be accessioned into the library of the tribe’s partner organization, the University of Alaska-Fairbanks Oral History Program, and will be available over the Internet via UAF’s oral history resource, Project Jukebox. All materials will be publicly available through the Seldovia Museum Library and at the Seldovia Museum via an interactive electronic kiosk.