The Oklahoma Cultures Digital Initiative (OCDI) is a set of interconnected projects centered in the Department of Ethnology at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History (SNOMNH). The OCDI is led by SNOMNH Associate Curator of Ethnology Daniel C. Swan and Jason Baird Jackson, an Associate Professor of Folklore in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and a faculty member of the American Indian Studies Research Institute at Indiana University. The goals of the effort are to promote the study of cultural diversity in Oklahoma, to make ethnographic and ethnohistorical resources related to Oklahoma more widely available through the use of digital media, and to foster dialogue and collaboration between researchers, students, and interested communities.
A major OCDI project–now complete–is the One Hundred Summers: A Kiowa Calendar Record project. Find out more about this project and its associated products here.
The banner photograph shows the Tulsa skyline viewed over the Arkansas River.
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