The Ute Indian Tribe will receive $250,000 through a cooperative agreement award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Utah Region under the Cultural and Paleontological Resources Management program (CFDA 15.224). The objective of the award is to develop recommendations and guidance to inform federal agencies on incorporating the Ute Indian Tribe's cultural values and traditional knowledge regarding the Bears Ears National Monument into the monument's management plan...
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...
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 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...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, totaling $307,827, will support the University of Montana in developing indigenized collections handling, decision-making, and educational programs focused on determining cultural affiliation for objects with unclear records in its anthropological collections. Specifically, the University will hire two postdoctoral fellows, a graduate research assistant, and...
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe received a $250,000 cooperative agreement award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Utah Region under the Cultural and Paleontological Resources Management program (CFDA 15.224). The five-year award running from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2027 will support the Tribe's management of cultural and paleontological resources on ancestral lands to benefit the public. As indicated in the program description, the Bureau of Land Management...
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...
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 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...
This $368,090 Project Grant from the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration, under the Native American Employment and Training program (CFDA 17.265), will fund supplemental employment and training services for low-income Native American youth ages 14-24 living on or near reservations in Utah. The Ute Indian Tribe will directly provide services including tutoring, dropout prevention strategies, paid and unpaid work experiences, occupational skills training, leadership...