Presentation

Tribesourcing Vintage Educational Films: Repurposing with Native Narrations

October 2019

Conference: International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums

Authors:

Jennifer Lei Jenkins

The University of Arizona

Melissa Dollman

Rhiannon Sorrell

Diné College

In this NEH funded project, existing "social studies" films were brought back into Indian Country where they were made in the 1950s and 60s and new narrations were recorded by community members and elders from the insider point of view. This "tribesourcing" method allows for identification of local knowledge that might otherwise be lost, as well as providing a rich, community-based metadata record for each film. Presenters will demonstrate the merging of old video and new audio in Mukurtu, and discuss lessons learned in the process of digitally repatriating these midcentury films. Before and after examples will be demonstrated.

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