Navajo Nation Library Wants to Digitally Preserve Thousands of Hours of Oral Histories

Navajo Nation Library Wants to Digitally Preserve Thousands of Hours of Oral Histories:

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In the 1960s, the Navajo Culture Center of the Office of Navajo Economic Opportunity (ONEO) turned to technology to preserve the oral histories of the Navajo people. Over the course of the next decade, the center recorded thousands of hours of oral histories, logging stories, songs and details about life as experienced by many Navajo elders. But while the preservation effort documented priceless details for generations to come, keeping the stories safe is harder—and more expensive—than it sounds.

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