Winda Collins (Managing Editor, Potawatomi Traveling Times) shared with us a copy of the article that was in the April 1, 2009 edition of the Potawatomi Traveling Times (FCP’s newspaper) from our TLAM visit to the FCP Museum/Library back in March… Here’s the link to the page the article is on: FCP TLAM article 2009. Or read below (minus photo).
Thank you Winda, and thank you Kim Wensaut (FCP Librarian) for a wonderful write up! (Also thank you to the photographer from the paper).
And thank you again to Kim Wensaut and Mike Alloway, Sr. for being so generous in sharing your time, experience, expertise, and thoughts with us. We enjoyed our time together and hope to visit again soon! And what a gem your facility is! We look forward to future collaboration opportunities!
Iwgwien!
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POTAWATOMI TRAVELING TIMES • April 1, 2009
Community, Page 4
UW Library Students Visit FCP Museum/Library
submitted by Kim Wensaut, FCP Librarian
Graduate students from the University of Wisconsin’s School of Library and Information Studies made the trek to Forest County on Friday, March 13, to visit the FCP Cultural Center, Library and Museum. The students are currently working with the Red Cliff band to re-open and develop that tribe’s library facility and were looking for ideas and networking from the FCP facility. They wanted to know how the museum and the library were developed and how it is currently operates. In addition, the group of nine students are working on developing a UW course on tribal knowledge institutions.
The students are part of an independent study course and are conducting visits to other tribal museums/libraries throughout this semester. Part of their goal is to facilitate networking opportunities between tribal institutions and the university. The students were given a tour of the library, museum and archives.
