Project Grant P14AP00469

The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians received a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Park Service's Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Grant Program (CFDA 15.922) to identify and consult on NAGPRA-eligible ancestral remains and funerary objects held by five institutions. The goal is to assist the tribe in updating the institutions' NAGPRA inventories and requesting repatriation as appropriate, benefiting the tribe's efforts to repatriate its ancestral remains...

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 U.S. National Park Service awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) program to San Francisco State University (SFSU) to support the respectful repatriation of Native American ancestral remains and culturally affiliated items to tribes in Northern California. The SFSU NAGPRA program will use the grant funding to conduct meaningful consultations with tribes in Mendocino, Sonoma, Humboldt, Shasta, and Lake counties, and to...

The Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior's National Park Service under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Grant Program (CFDA 15.922). The grant will fund the development of a comprehensive NAGPRA engagement manual to guide culturally relevant processes for the repatriation of ancestral remains, funerary objects, and cultural artifacts. Through thorough research, stakeholder engagement, and...

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 Park Service (NPS) awarded a $416,962.57 Cooperative Agreement to the Museum of Northern Arizona Inc. on September 3, 2024 under the Cultural Resources Management program (CFDA 15.946). The project focuses on the dissemination of information developed by the National Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) program related to best practices in disposition and repatriation. The museum, a non-profit organization specializing in cultural resource management and...

The Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Park Service's Cultural Resources Financial Assistance Grant (CRFA-PGC) program under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The grant funding supports the tribe's efforts to engage in culturally sensitive NAGPRA consultation processes with Bryn Mawr College for the repatriation of funerary and cultural objects from Aleutian burial caves. Through open communication, cultural...

This federal Project Grant award of $100,000 from the National Park Service's Cultural Resources Financial Assistance Grant (CRFA-PGC) program under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) will enable the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska, a federally recognized tribe, to engage in culturally sensitive NAGPRA consultation processes with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Museum of the North. The grant funds will support the repatriation of 185 ancestral remains, 3 funerary...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs, under the Cultural Resources Management (CFDA 15.159) federal grant program, provides $1,665,165.64 to Archaeology Southwest, a non-profit organization in Tucson, Arizona. The award will support Archaeology Southwest's efforts to ensure compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) through a range of activities, including archaeological surveys, artifact...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cultural Resources Management program (CFDA 15.946), supports efforts by the San Juan Island National Historical Park and the Lummi Nation for the planning, selection, and co-stewardship of permanent reburial locations of Native American cultural remains and objects subject to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The $142,290.62 award, effective September 1, 2024 through...