A major effort is getting underway at several universities, tribal museums, and libraries around the US to digitize the oral histories of thousands of Native Americans that were collected a half century ago as part of a project initiated by the late philanthropist Doris Duke. The New York–based Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced February 9 that it has awarded more than $1.6 million in grants to help with the translation, transcription, and indexing of the recordings so they can be accessible to Native communities, students, and the wider public.