Beginning September 2023 lasting through September 2025, the Nay’dini’aa Na’ Kayax’ Ts’iłk’ey Kezlaen Ts’ełtsii (Chickaloon Native Village We Are Making Connections) Project will take steps to address Tribal historic and intergenerational trauma and “forced social changes [that] have disrupted Tribal unity and created challenges to the traditional ways of life, values and relational systems.”[1]  The project includes digitizing selected items from the CVTC Permanent Collections and Archives, developing finding aids for the digitized materials, completing community driven metadata for each new digital item through a series of in-person and virtual gatherings with CNV Tribal citizens and other regional Ahtna Dene, contextualizing materials through curation and inclusion of Ahtna cultural attributes and links to materials recently repatriated from the Anchorage Museum, migrating the Ugheldze Le Cilaes (Information We Share) digital collections from Washington State University to the CVTC network, and working with a professional website designer to personalize Ugheldze Le Cilaes so that it better represents the CNV community.

[1] Kenyon, DenYelle Baete and Jessica S. Carter. “Ethnic Identity, Sense of Community, and Psychological Well-being Among Northern Plains American Indian Youth.” Journal of Community Psychology 39.1 (2011): 1-9.