Seminole/Miccosukee artifacts at FLMNH. This research and digitization addressed

catalog card information, digital images of the artifact, records of artifact exhibition and

publication, collector and donor information, and related anthropological research.

       Phase II required planning and implementing a prototype for building web content

that would invite what museum consultant Nina Simon calls "community co-design," by

using a wiki, or online group planning tool. Staff at the Seminole Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki

Museum and other Seminole/Miccosukee community members were invited to join the

wiki as stakeholders in the project. Thus they were able to comment on text and

images, and recommend approaches to displaying and interpreting their historical

material culture in a digital format. At the end of the study, the prototype was presented

to the FLMNH web committee, who agreed that the contributions of the community co-

design wiki may potentially be added to the museum website as a long-term online

interpretive fixture.

       Because museums hold artifacts in the public trust, increasing digital access to

their collections could significantly enhance visible relevance to generations who came

of age in a knowledge economy, and expect immediate information retrieval.

Furthermore, greater public access to and indigenous participation in the expansion of

online indigenous museum collections information, in particular, may offer several

potential benefits: 1) increasing indigenous communities' agency in representing tribal

views of their cultural heritage in both tribal and public museums; and 2) expanding the

ability of non-native scholars to represent indigenous culture in a more informed manner

in publications, exhibits, and other works. My study contributes to the museum field by

demonstrating the potential of inexpensive, user-friendly digital platforms for