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The WHC thanks all staff, interns and consultants for their efforts in collecting, preserving, and organizing the American Indian Tribal History Project material. The public can access this material to have a better understanding of each tribe’s unique history and culture from tribal members’ perspectives.
A letter from Francine Spang Willis, Former Director, American Indian Tribal Histories Project The mission of the American Indian Tribal Histories Project is to preserve and maintain American Indian tribal histories and cultures, from an American Indian perspective. Often, in the past, knowledge about each tribe’s history and culture has been told or written through a non-Native perspective by historians, agencies, scholars and reporters. Now, respected Crow and Cheyenne tribal members share some aspects of their tribal history and culture through stories told from their perspective.
Sincerely, Preserving tribal history and culture, from a Native perspective, for future generations is important. As well, sharing tribal history and culture of each tribe, from tribal members’ perspective, with Native and non-Natives, will help bring about a deeper understanding of America's first people. Through the American Indian Tribal Histories project, some Crow and Cheyenne cultural knowledge is available to many audiences in a variety of ways including traveling and on-line exhibitions, public viewing stations, educational DVDs, teacher resource CDs, on-line language presentations and an oral histories archive collection. Explore this website and you will find the extraordinary gifts of cultural knowledge select Crow and Cheyenne tribal members would like to share! Francine Spang Willis, Former Director, American Indian Tribal Histories Project
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