Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre Inc.

Published purpose

Sharing the Digital Collection at Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre Inc. is a project aimed at organizing, cataloguing, and increasing access to, the hundreds of hours of recordings housed at the Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre (MICEC), in Winnipeg. Over the last year, MICEC has digitized more than 700 hours of recordings dating to the 1960s. These recordings provide valuable insights and educational opportunities for all Manitobans and all Canadians. With holdings that range from materials documenting pivotal moments in Canadian history, such as Canada's centennial celebrations in 1967 and the 1982 constitutional negotiations, to priceless recordings of Indigenous knowledge keepers speaking and sharing lessons and songs in their original languages, to educational materials produced by and for Indigenous communities dating to the 1970s, the digital archive at MICEC can become a rich and varied source of learning for researchers, archivists, Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, and all Canadians.