An Intergenerational Knowledge-Sharing Oral History Project in Taos, NM

FAIN: PN-296021-24

True Kids 1 (Taos, NM 87571-5902)
Alexander Sandy Campbell (Project Director: May 2023 to present)

Training students, ages 14 to 20, to conduct and record 45 video oral history interviews with elders in Taos, N.M.

With the support of this grant, different groups of young learners (aged 14-20) will, under the guidance and tutelage of TK1 professional staff and a multi-stakeholder Advisory Committee, capture the resilience and cultural grandeur of our region by gathering oral histories. With an innovative, intergenerational knowledge-sharing process at its heart, this project will feature our youth soliciting and receiving the stories and experiences of the elders of their own cultural groups. As exemplars and leaders of our three land-based cultures, what can our elders tell us about cultures navigating and changing in their responses to both climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic? What experience and wisdom do today’s youth need to strengthen their own cultures?