Cultivating and sustaining a community of practice: U.S. Indian boarding school records curation [the national native american boarding school healing coalition?S (NABS) special project, titled the…

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) received a $491,049 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) to establish the National Indian Boarding School Digital Archive (NIBSDA) - a national digital platform and repository for digitized archival collections related to U.S. Indian boarding schools. The funding will facilitate a process of collective growth for the NIBSDA and a data aggregation working group to surface primary source materials, coordinate best practices for digitizing and curating boarding school records, and create opportunities to engage source communities. Key activities include cultivating a community of practice, establishing a permanent oral history collection, coordinating digitization and presentation standards, engaging native communities to share primary sources, and producing educational media showcasing the digital archive. This grant, with a performance period from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025, supports NABS's efforts to propel forward the understanding and preservation of this historic legacy.

Cultivating and sustaining a community of practice: U.S. Indian boarding school records curation [the national native american boarding school healing coalition?S (NABS) special project, titled the national indian boarding school digital archive (NIBSDA), was conceptualized to serve as a national digital platform and digital repository for boarding school archival collections throughout the united states.  in order to propel our understanding of this historic legacy forward, NABS, in concert with its partners, has coalesced a working group to coordinate and organize best practices associated with U.S. Indian boarding school records curation in the first of its kind data aggregation working group. This project?S collaboration with the social network and archival context (SNAC) consortia will focus NABS's efforts toward activities that will propel forward this group?S collective efforts of curating and presenting digitized collections. Funds provided by the national endowment for the humanities will facilitate a process of collective growth of this data aggregation working group and the NIBSDA platform to surface primary source material and to create opportunities to engage source communities in effectuating sustained involvement as practitioners in this crucial work.]