This interview originally aired on "In the Moment" on SDPB Radio.
More than 600 visual artifacts of wacipi history are now available online.
The University of South Dakota Photograph Collection in the Archives and Special Collections has grown. The photos document 50 years of wacipi events, or powwows, and 50 years of the Tiospaye Student Council at the university.
John Little, Ph.D., is the director of Native recruitment and alumni engagement at USD. He spearheaded the latest collection efforts.
He discusses the process of moving photo negatives to a digital home and the history he sees come alive in the archives.
