With the help of the Corporation de la Maison Dumulon and the Rouyn-Noranda Art Museum, Minwashin identifies institutions that hold Anicinabe archives and soon submits repatriation requests to them. The documents would remain in their respective collections but would be digitized and made available through the digital collection.

The third Miaja gathering, focused on heritage, sparks enthusiasm for archive preservation. A digitization strategy is developped in partnership with the School of Library and Information Sciences at the Université de Montréal.

Minwashin enters into agreements with the McCord Stewart Museum, the Musée de la Civilisation, and Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec to make a significant volume of archives available through its new digital collection, Nipakanatik. Thanks to these key partners, hunders of historical documents are now accessible.

A major archival digitization tour takes place across Anicinabe Aki. The Minwashin team prioritizes the digitization of documents at risk of disappearing in the near future. They travel in a recreational vehicule transformed into a fully equipped digitization lab.

Minwashin reaches a historic agreement with the Archives of Manitoba : hundreds of documents frome the Hudson's Bay Company are made available through Nipakanatik and transcribed by researcher Jon-Ethan Rankin. The partnership culminates in the transport of original Compagny reports to Timiskaming First Nation, as part of the fifth Miaja gathering.

The Mitonentcikan Circle is established to support Minwashin in the management of Nipakanatik. During the Miaja gathering, it has the opportunity to hear the concerns of the communities and to engage them in future digitization projects.