New Mexico Digital Stories
Telling the Stories is a place on the Web designed primarily for Native Americans in New Mexico to learn about the rich variety of cultural resources and services available to them from the Department of Cultural Affairs, as well as other state institutions, private organizations, and tribal communities. These include museums, libraries, archives, research collections, and historical and language preservation programs. To the extent possible, written, oral, and visual descriptive information about these resources and services will be represented in all of New Mexico’s native languages.
Telling the Stories also provides a forum where the Native peoples of New Mexico can voice their own stories, in their own words. Here, each community within the state has the opportunity to speak any message to the world. Using the powerful format of Digital Stories, the words are told in a video format by local people in English and the Native language. From tribal history to modern culture, the creativity and the personal connection of the storytellers is vivid and living.
Participating communities are shown below; as others enter the Telling the Stories project, new videos will become available below. Please join us in celebrating and privileging the Native voices of New Mexico!
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Documentation
The Telling the Stores site also offers access to public documents and government department information. Although some are in English, many Native-language translations are available. There may be audio tracks accompanying the Native language documents as all the peoples of New Mexico live in very strong oral-tradition societies.
Whether you are searching for government information in your language, or just interested in reading and listening to the voices of New Mexico, you will find it all here.
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