Contribution: Listen, Hear Our Voices

This project will create mobile digitization units staffed by post-secondary students to assist local Elders in transferring their media from cassettes, VHS tapes, film negatives, and historical documents into digital form. Intellectual property protections will be sought, and the owners of the material will be requested to participate in providing their material to a digital museum of our local history. The key activity of the Alkw Media Society is to administer Nuxalk Radio with the mandate of promoting Indigenous language use and fluency, contributing positively to physical, mental, spiritual and emotional well-being, and providing information regarding Indigenous identity, history and culture. This project involves creating a digital library system to catalogue and store digitized items for Nuxalk community access, digitizing an estimated 100 hours of audio materials and texts and transcribing and broadcasting the materials over Nuxalk Radio.