| ALASKA |
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Dinyee
Corporation
Stevens Village Photo Archives Project
$ 30,000
Duplicate, catalog, and create a computerized database to manage a large
collection of cultural historical photographs of Stevens Village.
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Native
Village of Diomede IRA Council
Diomede Elders and Youth Traditional Building Project
$ 38,000
Document the only extant traditional house (kugri) in the village of
Diomede and construct a new kugri. Diomede elders will teach village youths traditional
construction techniques, lifeways, and values.
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Native
Village of Gambell
Gambell Aqelqaghniiq Project
$ 39,000
Re-introduce "Aqelqaghniiq", the summer cultural celebration of
the Siberian Yup'ik of St. Lawrence Island and the Siberian villages in the Chukotka
Peninsula, for the first time since 1948 when the U.S.-Russian border was closed.
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Kawerak
Incorporated
Kawerak Heritage Program
$ 35,000
Duplicate, catalog, assess the condition of, and develop a database to
manage a large collection of historic photographs and slides.
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Kenaitze
Indian Tribe IRA
Kenaitze Interpretive Program
$ 23,000
Develop and conduct a series of five lectures on Kenaitze cultural
traditions for non-Athabascans in the Cook Inlet Basin.
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Ketchikan
Indian Corporation
Haida Cultural/Language Emersion Camp
$ 18,500
Conduct a cultural language immersion class in the Haida language in which
students learn cultural skills like cedar bark basketry, and collecting and preparing
traditional Haida foods.
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Kijik
Corporation
Kijik Corporation Historical Preservation Plan
$ 33,700
Assess the condition of the Kijik Archeological District, an ancestral
village and cemetery owned by the Kijik Corporation, located within the Lake Clark
National Park and Preserve, and develop a preservation plan to protect it.
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Mentasta
Lake Village Traditional Council
Mentasta Lake Village Summer Youth Camp
$ 30,000
Rebuild the Mentasta Lake Village, abandoned in the 1950s, for use as a
summer cultural camp for village youth to learn traditional cultural skills and reinforce
traditional values.
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Orutsaramuit
Native Council
Yup'ik Cultural Center Museum Program Development Project
$ 50,000
Develop and implement a program to manage and care for a large collection
of Yup'ik materials to be housed in the Yup'ik Cultural center.
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Tozitna Limited
Kantishna Tanana Oral History Project
$ 7,500
Translate and transcribe the audio-recordings of Abbie Joseph, one of the
last speakers of Bearpaw-Michumina, a dialect spoken by a band of Athabaskans who lived in
what is now Denali National Park and Preserve. Linguistic and oral historical information
from the recordings will be used in native culture classes.
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| ARIZONA |
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The Hopi Tribe
Hopi Cultural Preservation Ordinance
$ 30,000
Develop a tribal historic preservation ordinance in consultation with
tribal officials, tribal elders representing traditional Hopi societies, the State
Historic Preservation Officer, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the Bureau
of Indian Affairs, and the National Park Service.
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Hualapai Tribe
Hualapai Ethnographic Survey
$ 50,000
Survey and document the traditional uses and oral history of three areas
within the Hualapai Reservation by the Cultural Resources Division of the Wildlife
Management Department of the Hualapai tribe. Information from this project will guide
tribal officials in planning development of these areas while protecting significant
traditional cultural properties.
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San
Ignacio Yaqui Council - Yaqui Pasqua
Yoeme Ethnobotany Project
$ 50,000
Document traditional Yoeme uses of plants, prepare and print a
comprehensive ethnobotanical study, and use information gathered from the project to
develop teaching materials for local schools.
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| MONTANA |
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Assiniboine
and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation
Fort Peck Tribal Cultural Preservation and Development Program
$ 30,000
Establish a tribal preservation program, assess tribal preservation needs,
and train tribal members in survey and interviewing techniques.
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Blackfeet Tribe
Blackfeet Reservation: Archeological Inventory 1993
$ 45,000
Survey and inventory archeological sites and traditional cultural
properties in the Blackfeet Reservation and adjacent lands. Information from the project
will be entered into the tribal Geographic Information System (GIS) and used by tribal
planners and other officials.
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Confederated
Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation
Kootenai Cultural Committee Jump-Cut Editing
$ 5,300
Copy and edit a collection of videotapes concerning cultural events and
cultural sites of the Kootenai people.
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Northern
Cheyenne Cultural Commission
Locate Burial Site of Northern Cheyenne Slain at Fort Robinson
$ 12,700
Conduct historical research to locate the burial site of the Northern
Cheyenne slain at Fort Robinson.
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| NEVADA |
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Washoe
Tribe of Nevada and California
Washoe Cultural Resource Preservation Planning Demonstration
$ 30,000
Develop a model planning and project review process, a cultural protection
ordinance, and establish a tribal cultural resources inventory and mapping system. This is
a cooperative project of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California and the county
government of Alpine County, California.
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Washoe
Tribe of Nevada and California
Washoe Cultural Activity Kits
$ 7,000
Using information provided by Washoe elders the tribe will prepare
teaching materials for the Native American cultural history component required by the
California and Nevada State departments of education as part of the fourth grade social
studies curricula. This is a collaborative effort of the Washoe tribe and the local school
districts in Nevada and California.
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| NEW
MEXICO |
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Jemez Pueblo
Jemez Pueblo Quasho Preservation Program
$ 31,000
Document traditional cultural properties and museum collections of Jemez artifacts
through a multi-media recording system to be used in the tribal cultural program.
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Laguna Pueblo
Laguna Pueblo Language Retention Project
$ 50,000
Establish a language program for Laguna Pueblo and produce video-cassettes
in the Keres language using the Total Physical Response Method.
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Zuni Pueblo
Past Solutions to Present Problems at Zuni Pueblo: An Eco-Museum Approach to
Heritage Preservation
$ 35,000
Prepare and display four exhibits on traditional Zuni agriculture,
nutrition, family and clan structure, and cultural resources management. This project
supports the tribal effort to create a community based eco-museum at Zuni.
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| NEW
YORK |
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Oneida
Indian Nation of New York
Re-Establishing the Oneida Indian Language at the Oneida Nation Homeland
$ 23,000
Prepare an Oneida language curriculum for the language program at the
Oneida Nation Cultural Center and train Oneida teachers in its use. Project products
include a printed curriculum manual and audio and video recordings.
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| NORTH
CAROLINA |
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Museum
of the Cherokee Indian
Eastern Band of Cherokee Archeological Evaluation and Planning Project
$ 30,000
Evaluate five historic properties on the Cherokee Reservation to determine
if they are eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Information
from the project will be used by the tribal planning office to protect unmarked human
burials and by the Museum of the Cherokee to educate the public about Cherokee history and
culture.
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| NORTH
DAKOTA |
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Turtle
Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians
Turtle Mountain Chippewas: The Anishinaubag "Living History" Woodland
Village and Nature Trail
$ 22,500
Develop a nature trail interpreting traditional Chippewa uses of native
plants, build a cedar bark longhouse and a birchbark canoe for the tribal cultural center.
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| OKLAHOMA |
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Apache
Tribe of Oklahoma
Apache Tribe Language Preservation
$ 25,000
Develop a basic orthography, brief dictionary and skeletal grammar of the
Oklahoma Apache language.
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Caddo
Indian Tribe of Oklahoma
Documenting the Traditional Caddo Turkey Dance
$ 35,000
Document the Caddo Turkey Dance on videotape, with explanatory narratives
by Caddo elders, prepare printed transcripts of the Turkey Dance songs, and instructions
for making the traditional dress worn by Caddo women while performing the dance.
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Sac
and Fox Nation of Oklahoma
Index and Finding Aid of Sac and Fox Oral History Project
$ 8,500
Prepare and print a subject index and finding aid for the oral history
collection in the Sac and Fox national public library.
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Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma
Wyandotte Survey of Tribal Artifacts Held in Private Collections and
Museums
$ 33,000
Survey, document, and assess the condition of tribal objects and documents
owned by individuals or museums. Information from this project will used by tribal
officials to determine the feasibility of including a tribal museum in a new tribal
center.
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| OREGON |
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Burns Paiute
Tribe
Burns Paiute Tribe Historic Preservation Plan
$ 48,000
Fund a tribal archeologist responsible for drafting a tribal preservation
plan, tribal project review process, and tribal project review guidelines.
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Confederated
Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon
Siletz Historic Preservation Project
$ 30,000
Support training for Siletz tribal members in cultural resource management
techniques used by other tribes in the region which have developed tribal preservation
programs.
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Confederated
Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
Umatilla Historic Photo-duplication Project
$ 31,000
Duplicate, catalog, and curate historical photographs of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation and develop a management system for its access and use.
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| SOUTH DAKOTA |
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Rosebud
Sioux Tribe - Sinte Gleska University
Lakota Archive and Historical Research Center
$ 50,000
Identify and document the history and traditions associated with
significant sites within the boundaries of the 1889 Sicangu Reservation.
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| WASHINGTON |
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Elwha
S'Klallam Tribe
Elwha S'Klallam Language Project
$ 37,500
Interview and transcribe the oral history and oral literature of the two
remaining fluent speakers of the Klallam language. This expands upon a project supported
by a 1992 Historic Preservation Fund grant.
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Confederated
Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation
Colville Confederated Tribes Language Preservation Project
$ 50,000
Document the dialects of Colville-Okanagan Salish spoken on the Colville
Reservation, provide linguistic training to fluent speakers to enable them to teach
Okanangan-Salish, and establish a format for documenting the two other major dialects
spoken on the Colville Reservation.
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Makah
Cultural and Research Center - Makah Tribe
Makah Forest Utilization Study
$ 26,000
Survey, document and create a typology of traditional use sites in areas
on the Makah Reservation with unharvested timber. Information from this project will be
used by tribal officials to protect such sites.
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Nisqually
Indian Tribe
Nisqually Archival Development Project
$ 33,700
Develop a manual for the Archives Center of the Nisqually Indian Tribe
detailing procedures for accepting, processing, accessing, cataloging, storing and
protecting historic materials and documents; train tribal members in those procedures.
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Quileute Tribe
Quileute Photographic Exhibit "Living in Balance"
$ 44,700
Prepare and display an exhibit of photographs highlighting the need for
protecting the natural resources necessary to maintain Quileute cultural traditions.
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Spokane Tribe
Spokane Tribal Language Retention Project
$ 15,000
Conduct conversational language classes in the Spokane language using the
Total Physical Response method.
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Suquamish Tribe
Suquamish: "People of the Longhouse" Workbook Series
$ 40,000
Prepare a series of workbooks and teacher guides for K-6 levels describing
Suquamish history and culture for use in local schools; conduct teacher training
workshops.
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The Tulalip
Tribes
Tulalip Language Curriculum Development
$ 46,000
Develop curricula for kindergarten, first and fourth grade students in the
Snohomish language spoken by the Tulalip tribe. This project builds upon a 1992 grant to
the Tulalip to develop language curricula for third grade students.
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| WYOMING |
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Shoshone
Tribe - Shoshone Tribal Cultural Center
Shoshone Cultural Resource Training Project
$ 5,400
Support travel and tuition for tribal members to take classes in museum
studies and cultural resource management at the local community college and to participate
in specially tailored workshops in artifact conservation.
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Shoshone
Business Council
Preservation of the Eastern Shoshone Language
$ 22,000
Prepare a basic grammar of the Eastern Shoshone language for use in tribal
language classes.
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| NATIONAL |
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Keepers
of the Treasures--Cultural Council of American Indian, Alaska Natives, and Native
Hawaiians, Inc.
Keepers of the Treasures--Cultural Council of American Indians, Alaska Natives
and Native Hawaiians
$ 75,000
Support the activities of the Keepers of the Treasures--Cultural Council
of American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians, a new national tribal
organization formed to protect the historic properties and cultural traditions of American
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