Funding to support 25 First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation documentary heritage projects

Gatineau, Quebec, October 31, 2023

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023–2024 funding cycle of its Listen, Hear Our Voices initiative. In total, 25 First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation organizations will share $1.5 million to support their efforts to digitize and preserve language and culture materials and build digitization and preservation capacity to do so.

The recipients were selected based on the recommendations of an Indigenous review committee, external to LAC and consisting of First Nations, Inuit and Métis individuals from across Canada.

Indigenous organizations receiving funding through the Listen, Hear Our Voices initiative (2023–2024):

• Cold Lake First Nations
• Taku River Tlingit First Nation
• Lyackson First Nation
• Stó:lō Service Agency Society
• Splatsin
• Haida Gwaii Museum
• Kitsumkalum First Nation
• Saik’uz First Nation
• Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre
• Louis Riel Institute
• Gwich’in Tribal Council
• Inuvialuit Regional Corporation
• The Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq
• Kitikmeot Heritage Society
• Inuit Broadcasting Corporation
• Grand Council Treaty #3
• Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada
• Indigenous Curatorial Collective
• Walpole Island First Nation
• Makivik Corporation
• Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute
• Waskaganish Sibi Ayimuweyabi
• Saskatchewan Indigenous Cultural Centre
• Office of the Treaty Commissioner
• Council of Yukon First Nations—Yukon Native Language Centre

For project titles and funding amounts, visit the Listen, Hear Our Voices (Contribution funding recipients 2023–2024) web page.

Heritage organizations play a vital role in preserving Canada’s local memory. LAC is proud to contribute to documenting, preserving and making accessible to the public a memory that reflects a diversity of experiences, cultures and society.

The Listen, Hear Our Voices initiative is part of the Indigenous documentary heritage initiatives, which were developed in 2017 to increase access to Indigenous-related content in the collections that are in LAC’s care and to support First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation governments and organizations in their efforts to preserve their culture and language materials. 

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