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, funded by the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program, supports a project to identify and document archaeological evidence of tribal encampment sites associated with the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie in a 350-acre area at Fort Laramie, Wyoming. The $103,811 award to the University of Wyoming will utilize geophysical investigations, pedestrian inventory, and...
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...
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...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) provides $1,387,000.00 to the Lomakatsi Restoration Project to collaborate on an Indian Youth Service Corps (IYSC) initiative. The project aims to support tribes and tribal communities in building capacity for habitat restoration, climate adaptation, ecosystem resilience, fuels reduction, and stewardship of ecocultural resources through...
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 award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service (NPS) under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) provides $147,750.99 to Northwest Youth Corps (NYC) to carry out natural and cultural resource conservation, education, and volunteer service projects on NPS lands at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park. The award will support NYC in recruiting and engaging youth from historically underserved and...
This $666,665 cooperative agreement award from the National Park Service (CFDA 15.931 - Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program) will engage Indigenous youth and young adults in meaningful conservation projects at National Park Service sites across the country. The project is operated by Conservation Legacy and its Southwest Conservation Corps program, which specializes in delivering workforce development, training, and hands-on conservation experience on public lands....
This Cooperative Agreement award of $921,634.17 from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands program (CFDA 15.243) will fund a 3-year initiative to hire 1 full-time staff and 6 year-long interns to support the Native Lands National Trails Mapping Project. The goal is to engage youth, including from Native lands, in hands-on conservation and natural resource management activities such as trail maintenance,...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) provides $128,263 to support joint research between Portland State University (PSU) and NPS staff on cultural resources within Joshua Tree National Park. The primary objectives are to: 1) Document culturally significant sites and rock art locations of importance to native American peoples, and 2) Assess the potential...