Library and Archives Canada announces First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation organizations receiving 2022–2023 funding from Listen, Hear Our Voices initiative

December 07, 2022 – Gatineau, Quebec – Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is announcing the recipients of the most recent funding cycle of its Listen, Hear Our Voices initiative. Listen, Hear Our Voices provides funding to support First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation organizations throughout Canada in their efforts to digitize and preserve language and culture materials, and build digitization and preservation capacity for their communities.

Twenty-five (25) Indigenous organizations across the country received funding totalling $1.7 million for 2022–2023 as part of the initiative’s third funding cycle.

An Indigenous review committee, external to LAC, and consisting of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation individuals from across Canada, reviewed the applications and made the following recommendations for funding.

Indigenous organizations receiving funding through the Listen, Hear Our Voices initiative

(2022–2023):

• Acimowin Opaspiw Society         
• Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation
• Alkw Media Society
• Avataq Cultural Institute              
• Cheslatta Carrier Nation
• Council of Yukon First Nations – Yukon Native Language Centre
• Cowessess First Nation  
• Frog Lake Library
• Heiltsuk Cultural Education Centre          
• Inuvialuit Cultural Centre Pitquhiit-Pitqusiit          
• Joint Secretariat              
• K'ómoks First Nation      
•  Mamawi Apikatetan Braiding Histories Inc.
• Mamu Tshishkutamashutau/Innu Education        
• Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre Inc.        
• Micmacs of Gesgapegiag             
• Mishamikoweesh Corporation
• Mizinatik Digital Centre 
• Organisme Kina8at         
• Poundmaker Cree Nation            
• Stó:lo Research and Resource Management Centre          
• Treaty Education Alliance            
• United Chiefs and Councils of Mnidoo Mnising    
• University nuxelhot’ine thaa?ehots’i nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills
• Walpole Island Heritage Centre 

For project titles and funding amounts, visit the Listen, Hear Our Voices (Contribution funding recipients 2022–2023) web page.

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 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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