The Bruce County Museum and Cultural Centre has been developing an oral history of veterans in the area and a similar program involving First Nations people is about to begin.
Museum Curator Barbara Ribey says the federal ministry of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages has given the museum just over 15 thousand dollars.
Ribey says the money to assist in a program to document histories of First Nations families from several Bruce County Aboriginal communities.
Ribey says they include Saugeen First Nation and the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation.
Ribey says this project is exactly the same as the veterans oral history project that continues to develop.
Ribey says the Capturing Oral Histories project will create new public and curriculum-linked programming for the museum’s First Peoples’ Gallery.
Today is National Aboriginal Day in Canada.
It also marks the last day of the Good People Aboriginal Festival at Grey Roots near Owen Sound.
The three day event includes interpretive dance and drumming as well as native food, stories and arts.