Cooperative Agreement P22AC01234

The U.S. Forest Service awarded a $4,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association (AIANTA) under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance program (CFDA 10.664). The purpose of the grant is to support the AMERICAN INDIAN ALASKA NATIVE COMMUNITY NAVIGATOR SUPPORT NETWORK INFLATION REDUCTION ACT. The funding will enable AIANTA, a non-profit organization that provides tourism technical assistance for Native American tribes and communities, to continue their...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education program (CFDA 15.954) provides $114,985.00 to the Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park to create a cooperative process for evaluating existing interpretive content and developing new interpretive products in collaboration with Wabanaki tribal cultural advisors. The award period runs from June 2, 2025 to December 22, 2026. The project will engage NPS...

The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $427,744.44 Cooperative Agreement on October 15, 2023 to the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (NATHPO) under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program. The project seeks to involve Native American scholars and leaders in documenting the history of U.S. attempts to deconstruct Native American societies after the Civil War, an underrepresented aspect of...

The National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers Inc. will receive $550,000 through a Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior National Park Service to support the Beyond Horizons geospatial application project. Funded under the National Park Service Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education program, the project will deploy staff over three years to host and populate a web-based geospatial tool originally developed by the National Park Service. The...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the Department of the Interior's National Park Service under the Cultural Resources Management program (CFDA 15.946), provides funding of $248,732 to Rematriation, Inc. to carry out natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service, and education projects on Department of the Interior lands. The project will train tribal citizen historians to research primary documentation regarding their tribal nations' involvement in and the impacts...

This $937,213 cooperative agreement from the National Park Service will fund a research project conducted by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from July 2022 to September 2026. The goal is to investigate which elements of live and audience-centered interpretive experiences in the National Park System lead to more positive visitor outcomes. Over two phases, the university will develop consensus-based outcome measures, pilot test them, and conduct field research at multiple...

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...

The National Park Service awarded a $437,402 Cooperative Agreement under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) to Capacity Builders Inc., a non-profit organization based in Farmington, New Mexico. The agreement aims to create short-term work and training opportunities for qualified Native American students between the ages of 18-30 (or up to 35 if a veteran) to assist NPS staff with priority interpretation, education, outreach, community relations,...

This $501,878.11 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Park Service (CFDA 15.946 Cultural Resources Management program), supports a broad range of cultural resource stewardship activities undertaken by the Hoonah Indian Association, a federally recognized tribal government in Hoonah, Alaska. The goal is to actively engage the tribe in collaborative stewardship of park resources and values, as well as strengthen the evolving relationship between the tribe and the National Park...

The National Park Service (CFDA 15.945 - Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System) awarded a $125,000 Cooperative Agreement to Chesapeake Conservancy, Inc. on July 2, 2025. The award will support the creation of a data analysis and interactive GIS-based story map to identify opportunities for indigenous-led economic development, tourism, education, and public access to significant tribal sites within the Chesapeake watershed. The initiative aims to...