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 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...
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 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...
This Project Grant award from the National Park Service's Cultural Resources Financial Assistance Grant (CRFA-PGC) program, under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Grant Program (CFDA 15.922), provides $100,000 to the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska, a federally recognized tribal government, to initiate respectful dialogue and collaboration with Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology for the repatriation of two ancestral crania collected...
The Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Park Service's Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Grant Program. The award will fund 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 education, and legal considerations, the project aims to secure a...
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 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 National Park Service's Cultural Resources Financial Assistance Grant (CRFA-PGC) program, a component of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Grant Program. The grant aims to support respectful dialogue and collaboration between the tribe and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Museum of the North to articulate the tribe's rights and interests in the repatriation of 185 ancestral remains,...
The federal Cooperative Agreement award P24AC02110, totaling $847,249.03, was granted by the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cultural Resources Management program (CFDA 15.946). This award supports a broad range of research, operational, and educational activities across cultural resource stewardship, including inventory, monitoring, research, rehabilitation, restoration, preservation, documentation, data recovery, education, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Key project...