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.
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“We’ve been keeping the program afloat all on our own,” Friendship Centre president Danielle DeBruyne said.
“We feel that we’ve exhausted all of our resources.”
For roughly four years, the centre exceeded its operational budgets. COVID-19 added to that pressure, leaving little room for other programs, she said.
About 211 people coming from communities across the north used the services last winter. In a typical year, more than 100 people access the shelter, Friendship Centre executive director Ron Woytowich said.
Woytowich helmed the service during costly challenges over the past year, ranging from funding drying up to scrambling for space as temperatures fell. It ultimately couldn’t continue, although Scattered Site’s daytime services will go on, he said.
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