Cooperative Agreement A17AC00084

This $100,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Park Service's Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Grant Program will support the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC) in New Mexico to conduct inventory, consultation, and repatriation efforts for 79 Native American ancestors and cultural items. The grant will fund the hiring of one full-time staff member and one graduate intern to catalog, inventory, consult with tribal representatives, and prepare...

The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $416,962.57 Cooperative Agreement to the Museum of Northern Arizona Inc. on September 3, 2024 under the Cultural Resources Management program (CFDA 15.946). The project focuses on the dissemination of information developed by the National Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) program related to best practices in disposition and repatriation. The museum, a non-profit organization specializing in cultural resource management and...

The U.S. National Park Service awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) program to San Francisco State University (SFSU) to support the respectful repatriation of Native American ancestral remains and culturally affiliated items to tribes in Northern California. The SFSU NAGPRA program will use the grant funding to conduct meaningful consultations with tribes in Mendocino, Sonoma, Humboldt, Shasta, and Lake counties, and to...

The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields (IMA) was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Park Service's Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Grant Program. The grant will fund a comprehensive consultation process to review the museum's Native Arts of the Americas collection, which includes 1,515 cultural items potentially comprising unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony. The IMA will work with three subject...

The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians received a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Park Service's Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Grant Program (CFDA 15.922) to identify and consult on NAGPRA-eligible ancestral remains and funerary objects held by five institutions. The goal is to assist the tribe in updating the institutions' NAGPRA inventories and requesting repatriation as appropriate, benefiting the tribe's efforts to repatriate its ancestral remains...

The Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska received a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Park Service's Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Grant Program (CFDA 15.922). The grant funding will be used to develop a comprehensive NAGPRA engagement manual to guide culturally relevant consultation processes that lead to the repatriation of ancestral remains, funerary objects, and cultural artifacts. The resulting manual is intended to serve as a foundational resource for the...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Park Service's Cultural Resources Financial Assistance Grant (CRFA-PGC) program, under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Grant Program (CFDA 15.922), provides $100,000 to the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska to engage in culturally sensitive NAGPRA consultation processes with Bryn Mawr College. The goal is to initiate respectful dialogue and collaboration to articulate the tribe's rights and interests in the...

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, through its Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC) division, under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003). The grant funding will support MIAC's efforts to preserve, curate, and provide public access to archaeological collections and cultural artifacts related to Native American heritage in the Southwest. Key...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cultural Resources Management program (CFDA 15.946), supports efforts by the San Juan Island National Historical Park and the Lummi Nation for the planning, selection, and co-stewardship of permanent reburial locations of Native American cultural remains and objects subject to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The $142,290.62 award, effective September 1, 2024 through...

This federal Project Grant award of $100,000.00 from the National Park Service's Cultural Resources Financial Assistance Grant (CRFA-PGC) program, under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Grant Program (CFDA 15.922), supports the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska, a federally recognized tribe, in engaging in culturally sensitive NAGPRA consultation processes with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Museum of the North. The project aims to initiate respectful dialogue...