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Suwat: 3D digital heritage

Kawerak Social Science Program Manager Lisa Nuvraq Ellanna joins Outreach Director Danielle Sem, along with guests from the University of Missouri. Guests share details on a longterm, ongoing project working to repatriate historical artifacts from the region scattered throughout the country in museums' collections.

Technology developments create opportunities to digitally document these artifacts and recreate them in 3D. Kawerak created an MOA with the University of Missouri to maintain data sovereignty for the region's tribes; co-creating the project in partnership with the university, while maintaining ownership of the Traditional Ecological Knowledge.

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About this weekly program:
Danielle Sem with Kawerak, Reba Lean with Norton Sound Health Corporation, and rotating guests discuss what’s happening in the Bering Strait region.

Catch Suwat on Wednesdays at 10 a.m. on KNOM, 780 AM | 96.1 FM | www.knom.org/radio.

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