Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma

In partnership with the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archeology at Indiana University (IU), the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma (ESTO) will create an ESTO digital library to promote access to Shawnee collections and archival resources. Project activities will include the digitization of 15 linear feet of the Shawnee Tribal History Document Series in the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley Ethnohistory Collection, and scanning, describing, and uploading to a database 100 Eastern Shawnee military photographs located in the tribe's museum. Tribal members will benefit from professional development training in museum practices and digital literacy, and a community workshop will be presented in order to provide learning experiences with technology and newly acquired historical documentation. The digitized materials will be securely stored on the IU Archives Online for the benefit of 3,340 Eastern Shawnee tribal citizens nationwide, as well as the tribal community and researchers.