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Category: American Folklife Center

Three people moving along a waterway on an airboat with clear blue sky in the background. A woman sits on the front row, a pilot and videographer sit behind and above her on the second row.

Indigenous History Kept Alive at the Library

Posted by: Wendi Maloney

The Library's American Folklife Center and the Mellon Foundation have teamed up over the past several years to set up a series of grants that help preserve traditions that may otherwise be absent from the national record. For the most recent year, these include dances of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi, artistic creations of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma and traditional Hawaiian music. These works are then preserved in Library collections for future generations.