Heidi Harley wins AHSS Grant

Harley's project involves digitizing and remastering audio tapes of interviews with Yaqui elders in the Yaqui language, as well as producing transcriptions and translations of the interviews, which address the elders' experiences as children of warfare with and persecution and deportation by the Mexican government.
Several hours of interviews were conducted and recorded on cassette by Maria Florez Leyva, a native speaker of Arizona Yaqui, between 1969 and 2008. They have been kept in a shoe box in her home, and all of the interviewees have since passed away.
"Cassette tapes are easily damaged. Without the grant from the AHSS, this important material might never be digitally archived...