Organisme Kina8at

Published purpose

Dominique Rankin, Algonquin hereditary chief and co-founder of the Kina8at organization, is the custodian of a significant archival collection, including audiovisual material, 150 audiocassettes and 40 video cassettes entirely in Anicinape. These recordings document meetings and interviews with different Elders and cultural transmitters of the Algonquin Nation of Quebec and Ontario. The collection also features approximately 2 500 photographs (prints and negatives), 700 slides, and at least 2 300 linear metres of textual documents, chronicling decades of community, cultural, and museum activities from the past half-century. This project will digitize and describe audiovisual materials and some of the photographic and textual materials. The focus will be to prioritize the most vulnerable resources with the support of Elders who can describe them and associate them with the activities that they document, which will create opportunities for intergenerational dialogue. The initiative includes several components: completing an inventory, digitization, transcription, acquiring equipment, recruiting and training personnel in digitization and description, and making the archives accessible to the public through the Kina8at website.