Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians

Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians will increase digital services by developing culturally tailored digital products to increase accessibility of traditional stories, oral histories, and culturally relevant children's books. The two-year project addresses community needs, including a lack of oral history recordings, accessibility to library services for off-reservation/non-local patrons, and awareness of digital library services. The project includes development of three traditional stories and ten children's stories; collection of thirty recordings; training of fifteen staff members on how to conduct and record oral histories; and outreach to community members and elders, including workshops, children's story hours, and other events. The target audience is youth, young adults, and elders among LTBB staff, LTBB Citizen and households, and community.