This program utilizes qualified non-profit youth- and veteran-serving organizations to carry out appropriate natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service and education…

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 of the American War for Independence. This project supports tribal youth to bring their nations' stories into focus and potentially incorporate them into the national America 250 commemoration narrative. The period of performance is from September 6, 2023 to November 30, 2025.

This program utilizes qualified non-profit youth- and veteran-serving organizations to carry out appropriate natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service and education projects on department of the interior lands through authorized national park service programs. The project will train tribal citizen historians to work within colonial archives to research the primary documentation regarding their tribal nations involvement in and the impacts of the american war for independence on their nation. This project supports tribal youth to bring their nations stories into focus for their citizens and offer, where possible, their history a place within the context of the national america 250 commemoration narrative. Beneficiaries include private non-profit institutions and organizations public and private non-profit academic institutions state and local government agencies quasi-public non-profit institutions and organizations that support youth and young adult career training and development, and education in the areas of natural and or cultural resource conservation and management. Individuals families students and the general public will receive a benefit from the development and execution of these programs and projects.