Project Grant P13AP00071

The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan received a $156,430 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.308 - Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program) to digitize the records related to the Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School and the Great Lakes Indian Agency located at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Chicago, Illinois. This project will increase accessibility to these historical documents for tribal...

The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields (IMA) was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Park Service's Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Grant Program. The grant will fund a comprehensive consultation process to review the museum's Native Arts of the Americas collection, which includes 1,515 cultural items potentially comprising unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony. The IMA will work with three subject...

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, through its Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC) division, under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003). The grant funding will support MIAC's efforts to preserve, curate, and provide public access to archaeological collections and cultural artifacts related to Native American heritage in the Southwest. Key...

This $100,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Park Service's Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Grant Program will support the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC) in New Mexico to conduct inventory, consultation, and repatriation efforts for 79 Native American ancestors and cultural items. The grant will fund the hiring of one full-time staff member and one graduate intern to catalog, inventory, consult with tribal representatives, and prepare...

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) received a $491,049 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) to establish the National Indian Boarding School Digital Archive (NIBSDA) - a national digital platform and repository for digitized archival collections related to U.S. Indian boarding schools. The funding will facilitate a process of collective growth for the NIBSDA and a data aggregation...

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 Makah Indian Tribe received a $149,516 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services federal grant program (CFDA 45.311) to expand access to and enhance the Makah Cultural and Research Center's collections. Specifically, the Makah Tribe will support MCRC's efforts to digitize field notes, index cards, audio recordings, and transcripts from the Robert E. Johnson and Diamond/Miller collections. MCRC archives...

The National Park Service awarded $500,000 under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) to the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. The funding will support the fabrication of exhibit cases and archival storage for the Siletz Cultural Collection at the Tribe's Ghii Dee-Ne-Dvn Cultural Heritage Center and Museum in Siletz, Oregon. The award period runs from April 1, 2023 through September 30, 2026. The Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program provides...

The Seminole Tribe of Florida's Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum received a $188,123 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program (CFDA 45.308) to catalog and rehouse 16,000 photographs from the museum's collection. The project will fund a cataloging assistant to work with the museum's collections manager to document the photographs in the collections management database, rehouse the photographs, and make them available...

The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe (SCIT) was awarded a $647,572 Project Grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The award will fund a 3-year project to harvest and preserve historical records from the former Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School (MIIBS), which operated from 1893-1934 as part of the U.S. government's efforts to assimilate American Indian children. The grant will...