Fifty years ago, a Navajo group recorded oral histories from 450 elders on 1,700 reel-to-reel tapes. Now, the collection is being preserved for future generations.

(Vida Volkert | Gallup Independent | The Associated Press) In this Thursday, June 14, 2018, photo, this tape is part of a special collection of more than 1,700 reel-to-reel magnetic tapes, containing interviews with Navajo elders and medicine people conducted in the 1960s-1970s, that are currently stored in the library inside the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Ariz.