Cooperative Agreement L23AC00420

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...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Cultural and Paleontological Resources Management program (CFDA 15.224), provides $209,690.45 to Portland State University (PSU) to facilitate collaborative ethnographic research with tribal nations regarding their ancestral homelands within the Red Rock and Sloan Canyon National Conservation Areas in Nevada. The key products and services to be delivered under this award...

This Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding amount of $111,310.00, is provided by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Experienced Services Program (CFDA 15.016). The project archaeologist will review survey reports and site documentation for accuracy and compliance with the Section 106 consultation process. The project archaeologist will advise BLM leadership and the project manager on policies and regulations related to the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs, under the Cultural Resources Management (CFDA 15.159) federal grant program, provides $1,665,165.64 to Archaeology Southwest, a non-profit organization in Tucson, Arizona. The award will support Archaeology Southwest's efforts to ensure compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) through a range of activities, including archaeological surveys, artifact...

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...

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 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...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Cultural and Paleontological Resources Management program (CFDA 15.224), aims to partner with the Utah State Library to advance the Department's priorities for preserving, increasing resilience, and enhancing public access to cultural heritage resources on BLM lands in Utah. The $482,100 award supports a 3-year project to: 1) Incorporate and maintain cultural resource...

The New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, Historic Preservation Division, received a $114,256.67 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, under the Cultural and Paleontological Resources Management program (CFDA 15.224). The funding will support the NM Sitewatch program, which aims to protect and preserve at-risk cultural resources in New Mexico through volunteer site monitoring, training, and public education efforts. Key activities include...