Project Grant MN258283OMS25
- The Aleutian Pribilof Island Association (APIA), Inc. was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services (NANH-L) program (CFDA 45.311). The grant, awarded on August 1, 2024, will support APIA's efforts to strengthen, preserve, and ensure the unity of the Unangax (Aleut) people through cultural knowledge sharing, learning opportunities, and community engagement. Key priorities include...
- The Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, Inc. received a $150,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services (CFDA 45.311) program. The funds will be used to collaborate with cultural practitioners and hold classes to increase access to traditional knowledge, cultural practices, artforms, and language of the Unangax (Aleut) people. The project will create four booklets containing information on...
- The Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, Inc. received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services (CFDA 45.311) program. The grant will sustain and improve library services and operations within the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands communities. Specifically, the project will use the funds to support essential library activities such as the acquisition of library materials, programming for...
- The Aleut Community of St. Paul Island Tribal Government will further develop its Tanamawaa.com website and digitize archival materials under a $143,968 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The IMLS Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services program supports improving core library services for Native American tribes and Native Hawaiians. Under this award, the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island will add a new section to its existing Tanamawaa.com...
- The Aleut Community of Saint Paul Island received a $150,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.311 - Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services program) to host a 20-month "Island Times Visits" initiative. This project will document stories shared by elders on Saint Paul Island and preserve the unique culture and history of the community over the past 50 years. The recordings will be stored in the library's cultural archive, edited for...
- The Aleut Community of Saint Paul Island received a $149,865 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services program (CFDA 45.311). The grant will be used to enhance and make more accessible a collection of 40-50 hours of oral histories available on the Tanamawaa.com website. The project will generate transcriptions of the interviews with elders on St. Paul Island, as well as recovered 1994 audio interviews,...
- The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs awarded a $210,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, Inc. (APIA) under the Indian Economic Development program (CFDA 15.032). The funding will support the "UNANGAM TUNUU ACHIGAASALIX-LEARNING TEACHING OUR LANGUAGE" project, which aims to preserve and revitalize the Unangam Tunuu (Aleut) language through community-based language immersion programs. The 2-year project, running from September...
- The Project Grant award of $278,367 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services program (CFDA 45.308) will enable Koniag, Inc. to partner with the Alutiiq Museum in Anchorage, AK to enhance the museum's newly expanded gallery space. The project will feature a community-led planning and design process to develop 13 displays highlighting the Alutiiq harvesting tradition, community life, and spirituality through artifacts,...
- The Native Village of Eyak will create 3D scans of 15 cultural artifacts held in museum collections on Cordova, Alaska through a $108,438 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Under its Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program (CFDA 45.308), IMLS supports projects that sustain Native heritage and culture. The Ilanka Cultural Center will build on prior work developing a virtual reality experience of a traditional village to incorporate the 3D...
- The Alaska Native Heritage Center, Incorporated was awarded a $292,875 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will fund the hiring of an Assistant Curator to address a backlog of donated materials by accessioning, cataloging, and rehousing the center's collections of Alaska Native cultural artifacts. This project will help the center maintain its ability to successfully steward its large collection of...
The Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, Inc. (APIA) received a $250,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services (NANH) program (CFDA 45.308). The grant will enable APIA to provide hands-on expertise and training in collections preservation to the remote communities of Atka and Pauloff Harbor in Alaska. The funding will support preservation care experts to collaborate with the communities, provide workshops for regional staff and community members, conduct collections inventories and assessments, improve storage conditions, and develop essential policies and procedures for enhanced collections management. The primary beneficiaries are tribal members, community elders, youth, and artists, with the goal of building local capacity for collections care and fostering a deeper connection to Unangax (Aleut) cultural heritage. The grant has a performance period from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $250.0k | 9/16/25 |