This federal 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 to engage in culturally sensitive NAGPRA consultation processes with Bryn Mawr College. The goal is to initiate respectful dialogue and collaboration to articulate the tribe's rights and interests in the...
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...
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...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant, valued at $269,998, supports research to reconstruct the lifeways of North America's first peoples during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition (PHT) period. Specifically, the project examines a 12,000-9,000 year old mortuary site used by the ancestors of the Muwekma Ohlone Indian Tribe in the San Francisco Bay Area. The research employs a range of biological and biogeochemical analyses,...
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...
This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the Department of the Interior's National Park Service under the Cultural Resources Management program (CFDA 15.946), provides funding of $248,732 to Rematriation, Inc. to carry out natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service, and education projects on Department of the Interior lands. The project will train tribal citizen historians to research primary documentation regarding their tribal nations' involvement in and the impacts...
This federal Project Grant award of $100,000.00 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), supports the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska, a federally recognized tribe, in engaging in culturally sensitive NAGPRA consultation processes with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Museum of the North. The project aims to initiate respectful dialogue...
The Pueblo of Pojoaque's Poeh Cultural Center received a $241,172 federal Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.308 - Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program) to undertake a shared stewardship and ethical return project for Tewa cultural objects. The project activities include researching museums, institutions, and individuals in the U.S. who may have Tewa objects and collaborating with them to bring the objects back to Tewa country. The project...
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 Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Park Service's Cultural Resources Financial Assistance Grant (CRFA-PGC) program on October 1, 2024. The grant supports the tribe's efforts to engage in culturally sensitive NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) consultation processes with Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The project aims to initiate respectful dialogue and collaboration to...