Adopted Mukurtu
University of New Mexico — Center for Southwest Research
The Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections at the University of New Mexico is digitising nearly 800 Doris Duke Native American Oral History Project interviews from approximately 50 tribes, using the open-source Mukurtu platform. Recognising that the 1960s recordings often lacked informed consent, tribes lead the review before any material is published — for example, a Cahuilla band engaged the process after learning UNM held relevant recordings. Mukurtu lets the university act as preservation steward while ceding access control to sovereign nations. A US university example of Mukurtu-enabled digital repatriation.
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