| ALASKA |
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Bering
Straits Native Corporation
Project Jukebox: Oral History and Documenting Cultural
Traditions
$ 15,500
This project will train representatives selected by tribal
organizations from 10 Bering Strait communities in an interactive, multimedia
computer system called "Project Jukebox." This innovative program was developed
by the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Oral History Program to preserve
and access historic and contemporary Native Alaskan cultural information.
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Salamatof
Native Association, Inc.
Traditional Medicinal Plant Use
$ 26,400
This project is a partnered effort between the Salamatof
Native Association, Native American Fish and Wildlife Society, and the
Alaska Natural Heritage Program to conserve and expand the pool of knowledge
about traditional healing plants and their uses. A booklet will be developed
for tribal members.
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Sealaska
Corporation
Regional Summit Meetings on Site Preservation and
Use Agreements
$ 50,000
Sealaska will conduct two summit meetings to discuss
the development of preservation standards, procedures, and cooperative
agreements for historic sites within Sealaska's region. The meetings will
ensure that tribal concerns have a meaningful role in the development and
implementation of a long range strategy for the care and preservation of
historic sites among a variety of concerned parties.
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Southeast
Alaska Indian Cultural Center, Inc.
Protocol Workshop Transcription Project
$ 16,500
The Sitka Tribe wishes to transcribe and translate the
"Protocol Workshop" recordings in which Tlingit elders address all aspects
of proper Tlingit protocol. The workshop is held weekly at the Southeast
Alaska Indian Cultural Center and documentation will help ensure the survival
of these cultural traditions and practices for future Tlingit generations.
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Native
Village of St. Michaels
Native Village of St. Michaels History and Documenting
Cultural Traditions Project
$ 39,700
This project will document the Yupik Elders Committee
telling oral histories in their native language. These recordings will
be translated, transcribed, and archivally stored. Copies of the transcribed
stories will be shared with the local school to be included in lesson planning.
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Native
Village of Venetie
The Venetie Indian Reserve Historic Preservation Plan
and Site Inventory
$ 50,000
The tribe will draft a historic preservation plan for
the Village of Venetie and Arctic Village. The tribe will also conduct
a site inventory of Tsuk'oo, an old Gwich'in village, with the assistance
of tribal elders and young people relating old stories about the site.
In addition, the tribe will research recorded material to identify other
sites to be included in the preservation plan.
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Wrangell
Cooperative Association (IRA)
Wrangell Cooperative Association's Planning Grant
$ 8,700
The Wrangell I.R.A. will assess the preservation needs
of the totem poles located on Wrangell Island. This includes standing poles
as well as poles stored at the SNO Totem Pole Storage house and poles held
at the Wrangell Institute. The tribe will also assess the preservation
needs of Chief Shakes Tribal House.
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| ALABAMA |
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Poarch
Band of Creek Indians
Poarch Creek Indian Historic Preservation Project
$ 50,000
This project will provide comprehensive instruction in
preservation law and regulations, preservation techniques, historic research,
and computer application. The tribe will research and consolidate the reservation
inventory of archeological, historic, social, and culturally important
properties and sites into a computer database for use as a cultural resource
management tool to facilitate tribal historic preservation planning. |
| ARIZONA |
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The
Hopi Tribe
Antelope Mesa Rock Art Documentation Project
$ 50,000
The Hopi Tribe will document all rock art sites on the
1,920 acres of land known as Antelope Mesa between Awatovi and Kawaika'a.
As a result, an estimated 100 sites will be included in the Cultural Resource
Management Plan the tribe is developing for Antelope Mesa.
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| CALIFORNIA |
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Barona
Band of Mission Indians
Barona Cultural Center Planning and Development
$ 40,000
The Barona Band of Mission Indians will conduct a cultural
needs assessment and inventory of tribal members to assist in planning
for a new cultural center. The needs assessment and inventory will assist
in the development of programming for the cultural center.
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Bridgeport
Indian Colony
Travertine ACEC Cultural Resource Inventory
$ 9,000
The tribe will conduct an archeological inventory of
160 acres of land surrounding the Travertine Hot Springs area. The inventory
will document sites and provide archeological training for tribal members
in project design, survey strategies, site recordation and mapping, report
write up and artifact analysis.
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Coyote
Valley Band of Pomo Indians
Circle of Voices
$ 50,000
This project involves interviewing and documenting tribal
elders telling community histories, oral traditions, lifeways and songs.
It is an intertribal project that will record, translate, and edit fluent
native speakers from 13 tribal groups in California using audiotapes, videotapes,
and still photography.
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Timbisha
Shoshone Tribe
Timbisha Historic Preservation Ordinance Development
$ 25,300
The Timbisha Shoshone Tribe will draft and adopt a Historic
Preservation ordinance and will establish a Tribal Historic Preservation
Office. This is a follow-up project to the Timbisha Shoshone Tribal Historic
Preservation Plan which was partially funded from the Historic Preservation
Fund Grants to Indian Tribes and Alaska Natives.
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| IDAHO |
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Nez
Perce Tribe
Nez Perce Tribal Cultural Resources Survey
$ 49,700
The Nez Perce Tribe will conduct an intensive archeological
survey on 15,000 acres of land located within the reservation boundaries.
Once recorded, specific site information will be integrated into a GIS
database to assist in planning for future development on the reservation.
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| MAINE |
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Penobscot
Nation
Documenting Penobscot Root Clubs
$ 26,000
The Penobscot Nation will document the ancient and ongoing
tradition of carved birch root clubs. The tribe will collect oral histories
from elders and families of root carvers, write a history of style, function
and significance, and archivally preserve all documentation on root club
construction and use.
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| MICHIGAN |
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Huron
Potawatomi
Huron Potawatomi Basket Making
$ 6,000
Tribal elder basketmakers will teach traditional basketmaking
in a hands-on workshop format to tribal members. In addition to learning
the weaving and construction techniques, the group will learn how to select
and harvest native black ash trees, which supply the material for traditional
baskets, and to prepare the raw materials for weaving.
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| MINNESOTA |
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Fond
du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
A Community History of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake
Superior Chippewa
$ 7,500
The Fond du Lac History Group, with the assistance of
the University of Minnesota, Duluth, will interview tribal elders and persons
with cultural knowledge, gather historic pictures, and produce a book on
the tribe's history. A multimedia WWW Internet page will also be developed
with the information collected during the project.
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Leech
Lake Chippewa Indians
Inventory of Traditional Plant Use of the Leech Lake
Reservation
$ 34,500
The Leech Lake Division of Resource Management will compile
an inventory of traditionally-used plants found on the reservation including
their Ojibwa names. In addition the tribe plans to compile a reservation
sensitive species and habitats list to aid their natural resources management
staff in protecting plant species and habitats important to tribal members.
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White
Earth Nation
Historic Sites Preservation and Protection
$ 49,700
White Earth Cultural Resources Department will locate,
identify, and map burial, sacred, ceremonial sites, and sites of historic
significant to the White Earth Band of Minnesota Chippewa. The gathered
information will be maintained in a computerized database and sites will
be mapped in a GIS Mapping System for easier access during land use planning.
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| MISSISSIPPI |
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Mississippi
Band of Choctaw Indians
Chahta Imanopa: Choctaw Oral History Project
$ 37,800
The tribe will conduct one hundred interviews with tribal
elders speaking their native language. The project will train five high
school/college age tribal members and five adult tribal members in oral
history interviewing techniques. The information will be stored in the
new climate-controlled tribal archive and made available for any Choctaw
member to do research.
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| NEW
MEXICO |
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Pueblo
de San Ildefonso
Closing the Circle -- Oral History Documentation Program
$ 48,500
The Oral History Documentation Program will collect oral
histories of Pueblo tribal members as it relates to the area of "Traditional
Spiritual Use" within the ancestral domain of San Ildefonso Pueblo. The
production of a 30 minute video "Closing the Circle" will document impacts
on the cultural and spiritual life of the Tewa People, told through the
voices of tribal elders about the establishment of Los Alamos National
Laboratory and its historical relationship with the Department of Energy
over 50 years.
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| NEW
YORK |
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Seneca
Nation of Indians
Seneca Oral History and Cultural Traditions Preservation
Project
$ 50,000
The Seneca Nation will produce three storybooks, three
videos, and three storyboards for Seneca school children using oral interviews
collected from tribal elders. In addition the tribe will produce a documentary
of the interviews, and the Seneca struggle to retain their own cultural
identity.
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| OKLAHOMA |
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Choctaw
of Oklahoma
Choctaw Nation Skullyville Cemetery Preservation and
Restoration Project
$ 16,000
This grant will help preserve the existing monuments
and grounds within the Skullyville Cemetery. The Skullyville Cemetery is
the final resting place for many of the victims who came to Oklahoma on
the Trail of Tears.
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Iowa
Tribe of Oklahoma
Iowa Tribe Oral History Project
$ 35,500
The Iowa Tribe will compile and produce an oral history
for the tribe by interviewing 33 tribal elders. The interviews will capture
stories, genealogies, and family and tribal histories. In addition, the
tribe will duplicate historic photographs, providing copies for the families
and keeping a set for the tribal archives.
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| WASHINGTON |
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Lower
Elwha Klallam Tribe
Documenting Klallam Traditions
$ 50,000
The Lower Elwha Klallam Cultural Resource staff will
document Klallam traditions through multi-media recording of elders and
cultural leaders telling stories, legends, singing songs and performing
dances. Tribal youths will be trained in documentation techniques and use
of documentation equipment.
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Makah
Tribe
Makah Photographic Facility and Documentation Project
$ 50,000
The Makah Cultural and Research Center will develop a
photographic facility at the museum to document Makah elders, museum collections,
cultural events, exhibits, archeological sites and other culturally significant
sites. The tribe will receive training in the reproduction of historic
photographs, and will assist the Makah in controlling the use and rights
of images owned by the tribe. Training will be provided for tribal members
by a professional photographer from the Smithsonian Institution.
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| WISCONSIN |
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Forest
County Potawatomi Community
Otter Springs Water House Preservation Plan
$ 8,700
A historic architect will be hired to draw up a plan
on how best to preserve the historic Otter Springs Water House. The Otter
Springs Water House was constructed in 1930 by the Civilian Conservation
Corps (CCC) to protect the spring from the elements. The site was still
used as the main source of water by tribal members into the 1970s. |
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