Dr. Timothy Powell is a faculty member in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He has directed three NEH grants in partnership with Ojibwe tribal and community colleges in northern Minnesota. The current NEH grant (2010-2011), through Leech Lake Tribal College, is working to build a digital archive supported by the Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences IT department. When completed, Gibagadinamaagoom ("To Bring to Life, to Sanction, to Give Permission"), will include more than 100 videos of Ojibwe elders. Dr. Powell also serves as Director of Native American Projects at the American Philosophical Society, where he directs an Mellon Foundation grant to digitize the entire Native American audio recordings collection, which totals more than 3000 hours. The Ojibwe, Tuscarora, Penobscot and Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians are partnering with the APS on a project called "digital knowledge sharing."

<a href="http://gibagadinamaagoom.info/" target="_blank">Gibagadinamaagoom : An Ojibwe Digital Archive</a>