Grant Winners

2012

  • Baranov Museum of Kodiak, Alaska
    • The Baranov Museum creates opportunities for the public to explore the history of Kodiak Island and neighboring communities while also maintaining a local history lending library.  The Baranov Museum, in partnership with the A. Holems Johnson Memorial Public Library and the Filipino American Association of Kodiak, will collaboratively lead an event called "Kodiak Filipino Family Tree."  High school students studying the history of Filipinos on Kodiak will host the event at the public library for community members to come in with their family photographs to scan, and document their family trees to be stored for public access in the Baranov Museum archives.
  • Carson Regional Library of County of Los Angeles Public Library system, Carson, California
    • Carson Regional Library is situated in a community with a large Filipino population.  The library plans to enhance the collection and develop an artist workshop with a local artist that will discuss and teach the history and art of Baybayin, which is a Filipino script before Spanish colonization.  The event will be held in October, which is Filipino American History month.
  • Jamestown S'klallam Tribal Library of Washington
    • Jamestown S'klallam Tribal Library is a small, non-reservation based tribe on the isolated rural Olympic Peninsula of Washington State.  The library will host a 2-hour indoor/outdoor event with a S'klallam Storyteller sharing stories based on the ancestral stories of the S'klallam people.  Tribal members will also learn how to prepare salmon and oysters using traditional methods and will create Story Poles to write their own stories and/or read stories already in the library.
  • Mzenegen Tribal Library of the Match-E-B-Nash-She-Wish Band of the Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan
    • Mzenegen Tribal Library of the Match-E-B-Nash-She-Wish Band of the Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan is a newly created library/archive which was organized in 2011.  The library plans to host a program on the wild rice harvet which has historical significance to the tribe.  The program will include music, storytelling, reading, hands-on rice processing activities, a book-making activity, and a meal featuring wild rice.
  • White Mesa Library of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Towaoc, Colorado
    • The White Mesa Library is a service offered by the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe headquartered in Towaoc, CO to the 335 reservatino residents of Whtie Mesa, Utah.  The library plans a special program to educate the children and families of the White Mesa Utah, Ute Mountain Ute community about the traditional Ute Bear Dance Ceremonial Drum.  The program will also include a craft workshop on making miniature traditional drum style key chains.

2011

  • Greenwich Branch of Gloucester County Library System, Gibbstown, New Jersey
    • Greenwich Branch serves a small town of 5,000 people with a growing Pacific Islander population.  The library will be highlighting Samoan culture through classes for the community on South Pacific Island dance, Samoan tattoo art, and Polynesian musical instruments.
  • White Mesa Library of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Towaoc, Colorado
    • The White Mesa Library is a service offered by the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe headquartered in Towaoc, CO to the 335 reservatino residents of Whtie Mesa, Utah.  The library plans a special day for children and their parents to learn about their Ute cultural heritage.  Two classes are planned for the day in which a story from the tribe's past will be told by a local expert followed by a craft activity that has cultural significance.  The day will also include an open house to intruduce the library's new automated system and to issue library cards.