Local Indigenous archives and language revitalization underway at KFPL
An initiative to create and digitize an archive of local Indigenous history is in full steam at the Kingston Frontenac Public Library.
Danycka Pereault, an Indigenous woman from the Kingston area has recently joined the team responsible for the work thanks to a grant from Young Canada Works and going towards the StoryMe project.
She joins Programming and Outreach Librarian Jake Miller and Librarian of Local History and Genealogy Joanne Stanbridge at KFPL until December, and in her first few weeks of work has jumped in headfirst.
Pereault says, to little surprise, that Indigenous history in the area is not well documented.