Wampum unites us: digital access, interdisciplinarity and indigenous knowledge—situating the GRASAC knowledge sharing database

Abstract

The formal end of the social history project, the Community Reference Group (CRG), together with members of the local heritage committee has transformed itself from an advisory body to a fully-fledged heritage organization. A protracted and very democratic process has led to the formation of the Alexandra Heritage Society (AHS), to ensure long-term community control over heritage and particularly the management and growth of the Heritage Center. Although the AHS will not have access to huge amounts of money, its establishment marks an important shift away from the grand-scale and tourist-directed heritage plans of the earlier period. It can establish relations with academics unmediated by the objectives and political agendas of a state development project. Future heritage developments will be far dependent on local support and will in the process hopefully become accountable to the community. In a sense, one may argue, Alexandra's heritage has reached the point where it should have been a decade ago.

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