October 20, 2020

WSU Native American community access program receives grant to continue research

Author: BRADLEY GAMBLE

Money will help correct inaccuracies in federal Native American records
COURTESY OF AMELIA WILSON
WSU received a $700,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Mukurtu Content Management System, which is a software that allows communities to manage and share their cultural heritage digitally.
Mukurtu Shared is an expansion of this system that works with Native American nations and federal repositories, such as the Smithsonian Institution, to give Native materials digitally to their