Chilkoot Indian Association

The Chilkoot Indian Association will build upon its Storyboard project with the Akaawakaa Project, seeking to use 21st century skills to preserve and revitalize Native culture. Through monthly cultural programs, digital literacy classes, and a game designed for iPad use, youth and adults will be encouraged to create their own content as they choose and follow a field trip that highlights a place, a name, or cultural information. A weekly radio spotlight will share information about content created through the project and Storyboard information. As a part of the revitalization, the Tlingit collection in the library will be enhanced through a reorganization of the existing collection, cataloging of filmed cultural programs, and preserving and cataloging for check-out the local radio station language program Tlingit Time. With the use of games, iPads, Facebook, and Twitter, participants young and old will become more familiar, involved, and engaged with Chilkoot Tlingit language and culture.