Contribution: Listen, Hear Our Voices
Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre Inc.
$50,025.00
Honouring Our Ancestors Gifts
FY 2021-22 · 2021-06-02
Summary
This project aims to preserve and protect some of Manitoba’s most important recordings of Indigenous cultural and linguistic history. When the Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre (MICEC) was created by leaders and activists in 1974, its founders saw that Manitoba was at a pivotal moment in history. Armed with recordings and historical accounts of the major events of the time and empowered by a rising tide of Indigenous activism and political involvement, Indigenous leaders in Manitoba had amassed a collection of items and needed a place to house them. MICEC was created to do just that.
The Honouring Our Ancestral Gifts project will enable MICEC to truly honour the gifts Elders, language speakers and cultural knowledge holders left to our Centre. This project will build capacity within the organization as well as help make these gifts more accessible to our community by allowing others to hear and honour the voices of our ancestors and the legacy they left us. This project aims to preserve these important recordings for all Manitobans to enjoy by creating a database of digital files with which to create future content and curatorial projects.
Department
Program
Listen, Hear Our Voices
Location
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Recipient Type
Indigenous recipient
Type
Contribution
Source
Proactive Disclosure - Grants and Contributions
As published
Agreement End Date
2022-02-28
Agreement Number
LHOV-02-029
Agreement Start Date
2021-06-02
Agreement Title
Honouring Our Ancestors Gifts
Agreement Title (French)
En l’honneur des dons de nos ancêtres
Agreement Type
Contribution
Agreement Value
$50,025.00
Amendment Number
0
Description
This project aims to preserve and protect some of Manitoba’s most important recordings of Indigenous cultural and linguistic history. When the Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre (MICEC) was created by leaders and activists in 1974, its founders saw that Manitoba was at a pivotal moment in history. Armed with recordings and historical accounts of the major events of the time and empowered by a rising tide of Indigenous activism and political involvement, Indigenous leaders in Manitoba had amassed a collection of items and needed a place to house them. MICEC was created to do just that.
The Honouring Our Ancestral Gifts project will enable MICEC to truly honour the gifts Elders, language speakers and cultural knowledge holders left to our Centre. This project will build capacity within the organization as well as help make these gifts more accessible to our community by allowing others to hear and honour the voices of our ancestors and the legacy they left us. This project aims to preserve these important recordings for all Manitobans to enjoy by creating a database of digital files with which to create future content and curatorial projects.
Description (French)
Ce projet vise à préserver et à protéger certains des enregistrements les plus importants de l’histoire culturelle et linguistique autochtone du Manitoba. Lorsque le Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre (MICEC) a été créé par des dirigeants et des militants en 1974, ses fondateurs savaient que le Manitoba se trouvait à un moment charnière de son histoire. Armés d’enregistrements et de récits historiques sur les grands événements de l’époque et soutenus par la montée de l’activisme et de la participation politique autochtones, les dirigeants autochtones du Manitoba avaient amassé une collection d’articles et avaient besoin d’un endroit pour les héberger. Le MICEC a été créé pour répondre à ce besoin précis.
Le projet « Honouring Our Ancestral Gifts » (honorer notre legs ancestral) permettra au MICEC de traiter avec tout le respect requis les dons que les Aînés, les locuteurs de langues et les détenteurs de connaissances culturelles ont laissés à notre Centre. Ce projet renforcera les capacités au sein de l’organisation et aidera à rendre ces dons plus accessibles à notre communauté, en permettant aux autres d’entendre et d’honorer les voix de nos ancêtres et l’héritage qu’ils nous ont laissé. Ce projet vise à préserver ces enregistrements importants pour que tous les Manitobains puissent en profiter, en créant une base de fichiers numériques grâce auxquels il sera possible de créer du contenu et des projets de conservation.
Expected Results
Development of a policy document outlining the organizational guidelines, priorities and parameters around the process to digitize the collection of audiovisual recordings
Collection organization and in-house digitization (350 hours of digitized VHS and cassette recordings)
Outsourced digitization (550 hours of digitized materials)
Cloud-based storage system set up with file system and organizational functions for digital collection
Expected Results (French)
Élaboration d’un document de politique décrivant les lignes directrices organisationnelles, les priorités et les paramètres entourant le processus de numérisation de la collection d’enregistrements audiovisuels
Organisation de la collection et numérisation à l’interne (350 heures d’enregistrements VHS et cassettes numérisés)
Numérisation externalisée (550 heures de documents numérisés)
Mise en place d’un système de stockage infonuagique avec des fonctions d’organisation de fichiers pour la collection de documents numériques
Organization Code
lac-bac
Organization
Library and Archives Canada | Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Program Name
Listen, Hear Our Voices
Program Name (French)
Écoutez pour entendre nos voix
Program Purpose
Listen, Hear Our Voices supports First Nations, Inuit, and Métis governments and non-profit organizations in: 1) digitizing existing documentary heritage related to Indigenous languages and cultures, and 2) building the skills, knowledge and resources to do this work in their communities.
Program Purpose (French)
Le programme Écoutez pour entendre nos voix épaule les gouvernements et organismes sans but lucratif des Premières Nations, inuits et métis souhaitant : 1)numériser le patrimoine documentaire relatif aux langues et aux cultures autochtones, et 2) acquérir les compétences, les connaissances et les ressources nécessaires pour accomplir ce travail dans leurs communautés.
Recipient City
Winnipeg
Recipient Country
CA
Recipient Legal Name
Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre Inc.
Recipient Postal Code
R2W 3C9
Recipient Province or Territory
MB
Recipient Type
A
Reference Number
129-2021-2022-Q1-LHOV-02-029