The Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant to a project directed by NYU and New Zealand’s University of Waikato to protect cultural knowledge and data of Native American, Māori, and other First Nations communities.
Penobscot Chief Kirk Francis, right, and former University of Maine President Susan Hunter, left, signing the Memorandum of Understanding to properly identify Penobscot collections and use Penobscot traditional knowledge labels across the university’s library, museum, and other univers...