Feedback Form
We want to hear from you! Fill out the form below to share feedback on Whose Land?’s programs, goals, plans, etc.! You can find a digital copy of the Inside Look below the form.
INSIDE LOOK: First Edition
Bridging divides across regions, generations, and communities through place-based history and dialogue.
An “Inside Look” at our fundraising and programming goals for the first half of 2025. Printable version available for download here.
Fundraising
Current Goals
Apply our ethos of partner-first programming to our fundraising and administrative approaches.
Diversify our team as it expands.
Establish a balanced revenue model that sustainably blends grants, donations, and direct services
Expand our in-person training and programming offerings.
Current Objectives
Grow our board to reflect the demographics of our partners.
Add two staff members.
Build and train a Programs Team of grad and undergrad students through internships.
Create a Humanities Experts Team of scholars, educators, and community activists.
Programs
Current Goals
Integrate our current project partners into The People’s 250th.
Build a programming process that allows 250th-focused collaborations to become long-term partnerships.
Develop a method of collaborative community curation and storytelling linked to history and memory.
Current Objectives
Launch The People’s 250th in summer 2025 and grow it to 100 participants by spring 2026.
Co-curate five partner history projects on various multimedia platforms.
Complete a digital story and mapping platform to organize, archive, and display partner work.
Project Feature
Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Department of the Interior’s Boarding School Initiative. Additional financial and in-kind donations from Wisconsin Humanities and the Oneida Nation.
Project Mission
To build opportunities for inter-generational conversation, community education, and intra-community healing.
To recover and preserve the individual, family, and collective experiences of boarding and other school experiences across the WI Oneida community.
Current participants include: 10 elders and 15 Oneida High School students.
Leadership and consulting provided by: the Oneida History Museum, Oneida High School teachers and administrators, and Big Bear Media of the Oneida Nation.
Accomplishments
Hosted 5 intergenerational conversations.
Recorded 4 walking & driving tours.
Archived 15 hours and 75 pages of boarding school memory and history.
Established an intergenerational working group to support dialogue, healing, and memory sharing.
Outcomes in Progress
A boarding school collection on the mapping platform.
An exhibit at the Oneida Nation Museum.
A student-led episode for the Whose Land? Podcast.
