Mvskokvlke Hofone Enfulletv Rasvwetv (To Bring the Ways of the Mvskoke Back)
Carnegie-Mellon Grant Summary
Special Collections collaborated with The Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s Historic and Cultural Preservation Department, and together we have been awarded a $677,000 three-year grant from the Public Knowledge program of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project titled “Mvskokvlke Hofone Enfulletv Rasvwetv (To Bring the Ways of the Mvskoke Back).”
This joint effort focuses on digitizing and rematriating the Robertson-Worcester collection, which was donated to The University of Tulsa in 1931 and features many historical and language
materials never possessed by the Muscogee people. The project will also include items from the Indigenous Peoples of North America collection, assembled from a wide variety of acquisitions over many decades of archival work in Special Collections.
The grant will allow Special Collections to hire two archival specialists and a graduate student to reorganize and describe items like correspondence, photographs, and treaties and government documents. After the materials have been digitized, staff will begin the rematriation process by adding images and information to Mukurtu, a digital repository platform for preservation, sharing, and reclamation of Indigenous cultures, which will be hosted through the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and give visitors open access to archival materials.
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