Pember, Mary Annette. “Accessing History from Home.” (2012)

Partnering with museums and Indiana University, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) has helped create e-Humanity, an online cultural portal. Launched in June 2011, E-Humanity represents the beginning of a new form of cultural institution, one that will blur the lines between traditional museum authority and collections of tribal cultural objects. Funded by a National Endowment for the Arts grant under the Advancing Knowledge Program, AIHEC is partnering with Indiana University's School of Informatics and Computing and Digital Science Center, the Autry Southwest Museum of the American Indian in Los Angeles, and the National Museum of the American Indian in this groundbreaking effort. E-Humanity was developed in parallel with NMAI's "Fourth Museum"--a web-based vehicle for getting the museum’s cultural resources out to the community. The free web portal allows users to access photographs and written descriptions of over 70,000 cultural artifacts from NMAI and the Autry, according to Siddharth Maini, web leader of the project at Indiana University.