The American Indian Library Association (AILA) is pleased to award a $500 grant to each of the following institutions to host Talk Story: Sharing Stories, Sharing Culture programming. The 2024 AILA Talk Story Grant recipients are:
Canby Public Library, Oregon – The Canby Public Library will collaborate with the Confederated Tribes of the Grande Ronde Community of Oregon to host an event called “Do You Know Oregon’s First Peoples? A History of the Grand Ronde Tribe”. It will be held in October-November and is a way of directly sharing stories from Indigenous people about their histories with Canby Public Library’s community. This work is further supported by a planned special storytime with Todos Juntos geared toward children and families. Crafts and new library materials will further support the work of sharing Indigenous stories with Canby Public Library’s patrons.
Hoke County Public Library, North Carolina – The Hoke County Public Library will be expanding their brand new bookmobile services to meet the needs of Lumbee community members. One contact will be with the Hawkeye Child Development Center and the other will serve the Hawkeye Sands community. Beyond providing mobile library services, Hoke County Public Library will also incorporate a literacy-based family storytime program called “Carpets & Canopies Storytime” into bookmobile stops over the summer. November will see the Hoke County Public Library engaging with a local Lumbee historian and Lumbee artist to present at a community-based Indigenous Day at the library as well.
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