Hello, and a happy Spring to all of you.
We hope this finds you all well, and thank you for checking in with Wisdom!
We want to say thank you to our staff, who are all amazing. Wisdom appreciates your dedication and perseverance to our mission and projects as we continue to move forward.
To our Board, thank you for standing for Wisdom while helping to expand our outreach through sharing our visions and goals with your professional and community partners, and families. We work closely with each team member and Board member to make sure we build on our mission while expanding our vision for the future and continuing to increase our programs and staff.
Wisdom would like to direct your attention to our Multimedia Archives Project. As all of the 30 years of the film is on formats such as 8mm, reel-to-reel, or VHS, we sent out, and have recently received back, the first of our Digitized footage. We’re excited to finally be working on getting every single item digitized and returned to the families and Tribes from which all of these stories came. We will honor those agreements.
As we go through each of the films &/or recordings to identify participants, we will be reaching out for assistance in identifying the people who contributed to them. In time, we will be reaching back out to inquire about future presentations and opportunities for community engagements to help preserve and share the stories, histories, and Indigenous knowledge as is appropriate.
Furthermore, we have now renewed our partnership with OpenSignal for our Multimedia program internships (as we had to discontinue due to the onset of COVID-19).
Our ITEK internships are going great as well! So wonderful to see the engagement and dedication of our students. We are planning to increase our offerings by adding more weeks for classes and hands-on fieldwork to both internships. Please be sure to check out our paid internships. You can find out more information and whom to contact from the ITEK and Multimedia pages on our website.
We are looking to the future with great excitement. Please feel free to contact us and let’s see how we can work together for a greater future for our communities and for our shared environments.