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University of Montana Project Crafts Unique Web Site About Montana Tribes

A new Web site about Montana’s Indian tribes that offers hours of video interviews with Native people, learning activities and other resources is now online at http://www.montanatribes.org.

The site, which took a year to develop, was funded by the state Office of Public Instruction’s Indian Education Division and The University of Montana. OPI and UM split the $60,000 cost to build the site.

Montanatribes.org, an educational resource for citizens and teachers, was created by UM’s Regional Learning Project, which produces multimedia educational products with American Indian educators about regional history. Project Director Sally Thompson said the new site, with its comprehensive look at all tribes in a single state, may be the first of its kind in the U.S.

“We don’t know of anybody else doing this type of work, and if they are, we’d love to know who they are,” Thompson said. “We have the advantage of having a major collection of tribal interviews to draw from.”

Full Story: http://news.umt.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5013&Itemid=9

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