The digital archiving of endangered language oral traditions : Kaipuleohone at the University of Hawai'i and C'ek'aedi Hwnax in Alaska

In this essay I compare and contrast two small-scale language archives and discuss their relevance for oral tradition research.1 The first of these is Kaipuleohone, the University of Hawai'i Digital Ethnographic Archive (KUHDEA).2 KUHDEA is administered by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UHM) and curated by the UHM library in an institutional DSpace repository under the purview of the UHM library. The second archive presented here is called C'ek'aedi Hwnax 3 (C'H), which serves the Ahtna Alaska Native community in and around the Copper River region of south central Alaska. C'H is fully administered by the Ahtna community itself via a non-profit organization known as the Ahtna Heritage Foundation (AHF)./