Portal for tribal village history • Oral histories • Community memory

Village history, archival access, and community memory in one public portal.

Ravenkey is building a village-centered platform that connects public storytelling with searchable archival materials, beginning with Nulato and designed to expand community by community over time.

Featured village pages

Each community can have a dedicated public page with local context, key themes, and direct pathways into archival records.

Live / Initial Focus

Nulato

The first featured village in the Ravenkey portal, linking storytelling and archive collection records.

Live

Unalakleet

Village page connecting Unalakleet public interpretation to published archive collections.

Planning

Shageluk

A future village portal page for community history, language materials, and local records.

What visitors can explore

Ravenkey is organized around the materials that most often carry community memory forward.

Oral Histories

Elders’ voices, interviews, local memory, and storytelling.

Photographs

Family collections, village life, gatherings, and visual history.

Language

Words, place names, recordings, and language materials tied to identity.

Documents

Records, maps, newsletters, and local historical material.

“Ravenkey begins with one community done well, then grows into a wider platform where each village can be represented clearly, respectfully, and on its own terms.”

Starting with Nulato

Nulato is the first village represented in the portal and serves as the initial model for a public history presence that is discoverable, useful, and grounded in community context.

  • Village history and public interpretation.
  • Featured oral histories and photographs.
  • Pathways into records and collections.
  • Links to archival materials and published collections.

Help shape the Ravenkey platform

Ravenkey welcomes collaboration from tribal organizations, elders, families, funders, archivists, and public partners working to preserve village history over time.