WASHINGTON - The Trump Administration announced today $602,923 in tribal heritage grants for 13 preservation projects that assist Indian Tribes, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiian organizations in protecting and promoting their unique cultural heritage and traditions.
“These grants provide critical support to help American Indian Tribes and Alaskan and Hawaiian Native communities connect people with their traditions and preserve their cultural heritage for future generations," said Margaret Everson, Counselor to the Secretary, exercising the delegated authority of the NPS Director.
Congress appropriates funding for the Tribal Heritage Grant Program through the Historic Preservation Fund. The fund uses revenue from federal oil leases on the Outer Continental Shelf to provide assistance for a broad range of preservation projects without expending tax dollars.
The grants will finance projects to locate and identify cultural resources, preserve historic properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places, support comprehensive preservation planning, train tribal youth to serve as living history guides, preserve oral history and cultural traditions, provide training to build a historic preservation program, and support cultural and historic preservation interpretation and education.
For more information about the grants and the Tribal Heritage Grant program, please visit https://www.nps.gov/thpo/tribal-heritage/index.html. Applications for approximately $500,000 in 2021 funding will be announced fall of 2020.
Tribal Heritage Grant Awards:
State
Projects
Grantee
Award
Alaska
Dene Cultural Sites in the Matanuska Watershed Survey
Chickaloon Native Village
$50,000
Alaska
Dena’ina Village Survey
Knik Tribe
$50,000
Alaska
Sitkinak Island Archaeological Survey (SIAS)
Koniag, Inc.
$49,301
California
Strategic Planning for Pala Cultural Resources
Pala Band of Mission Indians
$49,378
California
Telling Our Story: Resighini Rancheria’s Oral History Connections to the Klamath River
Resighini Rancheria
$50,000
Louisiana
Coushatta Heritage Trail Guides and Living History Program
Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana
$50,000
Michigan
Establishing the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians GIS Inventory
Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians
$41,571
Oregon
Becoming the Burns Paiute: 20th Century Oral History Elder Book Project
Burns Paiute Tribe
$49,998
South Carolina
Catawba Indian Nation Cultural and Traditional Arts Initiative
Catawba Indian Nation
$13,403
Texas
Comprehensive Preservation Planning at Ysleta del Sur Pueblo
Ysleta del Sur Pueblo
$50,000
Virginia
Chief Otho S. Nelson and Susie P. Nelson House Rehabilitation Project
Rappahannock Tribe of Virginia
$50,000
Washington
Quileute Tribe’s Historic Preservation Plan for Artifact Curation
Quileute Tribe of the Quileute Reservation
$49,272
Wisconsin
Gete Anishinaabeg Izhichigewin Community Archaeology Project
Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians
$50,000
13 Tribes
Total
$602,923
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Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
