Alaskan Dene Treasures is a collection of digital heritage items from the villages within the Yukon-Koyukuk School District boundaries. The two languages covered are Denaakk'e (Koyukon Athabascan) and Benhti Kokht'ana Kenaga' (AKA Menhti Kokht'ana Kenaga', Lower Tanana Athabascan). Except for Minto which is Benhti Kokht'ana Kenaga', all the other villages (from upriver to downriver Allakaket, Hughes, Huslia, Koyukuk, Nulato, Kaltag and back upriver Ruby, Manley Hot Springs, and Rampart) the language spoken is Denaakk'e.
This website contains digital heritage items (photos, videos and audio files) and an online dictionary. The data is managed by the Alaska Native Language Archives (ANLA) and the Yukon-Koyukuk School District (YKSD).
Mukurtu CMS provides:
- Local cultural protocols to provide granular access parameters for digital heritage content;
- Flexible templates that adapt to various indigenous stakeholder needs;
- Traditional knowledge fields customizable for curating content alongside standard Dublin Core metadata fields;
- An innovative set of Traditional Knowledge licenses that work with traditional copyright and Creative Commons licenses to better serve Indigenous needs; and
- A safe, secure, free and open source platform for managing digital cultural heritage materials online and offline
Mukurtu is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (or "GPL"), which means anyone is free to download it and share it with others. This open development model means that people are constantly working to make sure Mukurtu is a cutting-edge platform that supports the unique needs of indigenous libraries, archives and museums as they seek to preserve and share their digital heritage. Mukurtu encourages collaboration and innovation as we seek to offer respectful and responsible models for content management.