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 Cincinnati Museum Center received a $499,685 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. Through this funding, the Museum Center will develop and design a new permanent exhibition, the Indigenous Peoples Gallery, which will explore the region's long history of human habitation, from earliest Native American societies to the tribal nations still residing in the central Ohio Valley. The project will build...
The Indianapolis Museum of Art Inc., doing business as Newfields, received a $665,091 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program (CFDA 45.301). The funding will support Newfields' efforts to develop a professional development program and 12-month fellowship program within their Conservation Department. Key activities include engaging a training consultant to design a new staff training program, developing...
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, through its Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC) division, under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003). The grant funding will support MIAC's efforts to preserve, curate, and provide public access to archaeological collections and cultural artifacts related to Native American heritage in the Southwest. Key...
The Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology received a $352,152 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to purchase new compact storage and rehouse its ethnographic collections. The museum will use the funding to mitigate mold issues and facilitate complete inventory of over 30,000 objects and 18,000 photographs representing global cultures through installation of state-of-the-art compact storage....
The Cape Ann Museum was awarded a $407,120 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program (CFDA 45.301). The 3-year initiative will focus on increasing knowledge and awareness of Native American perspectives and experiences in Massachusetts, in collaboration with Native American institutions, artists, and scholars. Key project activities include hosting a planning convening, installing a traditional domed dwelling, a Native...
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 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 Staten Island Museum received a $496,921 Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to build a collaborative approach to the stewardship of the museum's Native American and Indigenous collections. Through this project, the museum will work directly with Lenape representatives to catalog the Lenape archaeology collection of nearly 3,500 artifacts found on Staten Island and surrounding areas. The grant will support the hiring of a part-time...
This $500,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Park Service under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid for Competitive Grants program (CFDA 15.966) supports collections conservation and storage activities at the Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum in Exeter, Rhode Island. The museum, a minority-owned non-profit institution dedicated to preserving indigenous history and culture, will use the funding to document, conserve, and properly store its historical collections related to...
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 matter experts to engage with lineal descendants, Native American tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations to determine cultural affiliation and facilitate repatriations as appropriate. The project aims to create an updated NAGPRA summary, notify relevant parties, update collections records, and develop a process for prioritizing and executing repatriations. This work will help the IMA achieve greater NAGPRA compliance and enhance its ability to responsibly steward its Native cultural holdings.