Project Grant MN259464OMS26
- 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 Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska received a $150,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services program (CFDA 45.311), awarded October 1, 2025, with completion targeted for September 30, 2027. The grant funds a two-year initiative to deliver cultural arts classes in Washington State, addressing the limited access to cultural programming experienced by over 8,000 Tlingit and...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Chilkat Indian Village received a $143,094 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services program (CFDA 45.311), awarded October 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for September 30, 2027. The award supports the Klukwan Community and School Library's partnership with the Jilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center to preserve and revitalize Tlingit language and traditional knowledge. The project...
- The Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska received a $148,534 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services (NANH-L) federal grant program (CFDA 45.311). This 2-year grant, with a period of performance from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, will enable the tribe to offer training, education, and classes to its community to promote cultural arts. Activities will include...
- The Native Village of Kwinhagak in Quinhagak, Alaska will receive $100,000 through June 2025 under a Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program (NANH-Museums). The funding will support development of a digital museum guide featuring interactive 3D artifacts and interpretive content from the Nunalleq Museum's archaeological collection. Activities include gathering resources for the guide, designing a back-end data...
- The Salamatof Tribal Council of Alaska received a $150,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services (NANH-L) federal grant program (CFDA 45.311). The grant project will contract a professional library consultant to evaluate current library services and provide recommendations for the development and enhancement of the tribal library's workflows, policies, procedures, collections management, needs...
- The Douglas Indian Association received a $250,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program (CFDA 45.308), effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027. The grant supports the preservation and perpetuation of Chilkat weaving, a traditional cultural practice of the Tlingit community in Juneau, Alaska. Primary deliverables include direct instruction of 52 developing cultural practitioners in...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded Sealaska Heritage Institute $250,000 under the Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program (CFDA 45.308) on October 1, 2025, to preserve and digitize 1,730 video recordings documenting past culture and language revitalization efforts for Southeast Alaska's three endangered indigenous languages: Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian. The project, which extends through September 30, 2027, will create...
- The Nisqually Indian Tribe received a $210,798 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program (CFDA 45.308). The grant funding will support the Nisqually Indian Tribe's Language Resource Center in using storytelling to further revitalize and preserve the tribe's endangered language. Key project activities include: Translating cultural practices into the Nisqually language and drafting/publishing five...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, Inc. received a $150,000 Project Grant award dated October 1, 2025, under the Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services program (CFDA 45.311), administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The two-year project, scheduled for completion by September 30, 2027, will develop culturally focused educational resources and programming to increase Unangax (Aleut) community access to...
The Native Village of Eyak received a $237,526 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program (CFDA 45.308) beginning September 1, 2026 and concluding August 31, 2028. Through its Ilanka Cultural Center, the tribe will expand an immersive virtual reality (VR) experience designed to reconnect tribal members—including Eyak, Chugach Region, Tlingit, and Athabascan peoples—with their ancestral cultures, languages, and traditional lifeways. Building on prior project phases, deliverables include technology upgrades, new interactive cultural activities, digitally modeled artifacts, and recorded language voiceovers developed in collaboration with the Eyak Cultural Foundation and contracted specialists. The project will increase community access to culturally grounded educational resources and strengthen engagement among tribal youth, elders, and visitors through a unified digital platform representing the four distinct cultures represented in the Native Village of Eyak. Project activities are performed in Cordova, Alaska.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $219.2k | 7/13/26 |