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...
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 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 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 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...
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...
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 Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) received a $343,812 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to preserve 2,202 works of art on paper and other collections held at the MNA's Easton Collections Center over three years. The award falls under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program. Through this funding, MNA will rehouse works currently stored in acidic containers into archival-quality presentation mats and mobile...
The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs awarded a $1,978,368 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) on January 16, 2025 under the Cultural Resources Management (CFDA 15.159) federal grant program. This funding supports UAF's efforts to document, catalog, and safeguard indigenous cultural materials, archaeological collections, and historical artifacts associated with Native American communities in Alaska. The project aims to ensure compliance with...