Project Grant PW22816815

The Pueblo of Pojoaque will receive $152,526 under a two-year Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services program to redesign storage space and conduct collections work for the Pojoaque Cultural Center's holdings of works by Tewa artists. Staff will reorganize collections storage, hire interns and consultants to inventory over 1,500 objects in a content management system, and complete condition reports for both on- and off-site...

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 federal Project Grant award under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) is intended to gather baseline data to inform the feasibility of salmon reintroduction upstream of Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee Dams. The $700,000 award, made on September 1, 2024, will support the Coeur D'Alene Tribe in conducting several key research objectives, including: Estimating survival and travel time of juvenile...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) provides $324,824 to Archaeology Southwest, a non-profit organization, to conduct research on the role of diet in the process of long-term cultural integration among migrant and local groups in the 14th century. The project examines changes over generations in how plants and animals were used for food, raw materials, and...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Tribal Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.639) program provides $216,032.00 to the Chilkat Indian Village (CIV) in Klukwan, Alaska to map and analyze the habitat and populations of sockeye salmon in the Chilkat River watershed. The project will create the first detailed map of strontium isotope variation across the Chilkat River watershed, which can be used to track salmon populations and critical habitats. CIV will conduct comprehensive...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $107,164.68, funded by the Department of the Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region under the Cultural Resources Management program (CFDA 15.946), will enable The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Incorporated (PAL) to complete National Register documentation for Colorado National Monument. This will assist park managers in better identifying, preserving, and interpreting the historic resources within the Monument. The award supports a...

The Makah Indian Tribe received a $390,000 project grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) to support and improve its coded-wire tag sampling program from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. Specifically, the funding will be used to continue employing an additional sampler for the 2022-2023 salmon fishing season, as well as support the wages of the primary sampler and tag reader. The award...

This $6,862,160 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) is focused on the efficient and meticulous administration of 2024 Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Funds (PCSRF) for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) and its member tribes. The ultimate objective is to implement tribal projects related to salmon habitat restoration, stock enhancement, research, and...

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...

This federal Project Grant award of $449,324 from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (CFDA 15.517) program will fund a 4-year study by the Karuk Tribe of California to monitor juvenile salmonid survival and migration rates in the Klamath River basin. The project will use acoustic tags to track wild and hatchery-raised Chinook salmon in the Scott, Salmon, Trinity, and Klamath Rivers, and install an array of 32 acoustic receivers...