Chilkat Indian Village

The Chilkat Indian Village Library designed a program that will focus on Tlingit culture, tribal history, and impacts of library and cultural services with the goal of increasing community knowledge of tribal cultural history, media literacy, and life and career skills. The library will present programs, develop collections, provide increased access to cultural resources, and create five films that record tribal lands history. Project staff will work with mentors to build skills and will develop an evaluation tool that spans a decade of services. They will analyze long-term impacts of cultural and library services that have been provided in order to better understand how to design effective programs and services in the future. The overarching goal is to promote the library as a strong community anchor that will enhance civic engagement, cultural opportunities, and economic vitality for tribal members, researchers, others who use library services or view the films, tribal council, and the village.