News Release

Trump Administration Invests $600,000 in Grants to American Indian Tribes and Alaskan Natives

Karuk Youth Videographer Luis Neuner, 17, learns filming techniques as part of the Karuk Tribe’s K-12 Curriculum Oral History Documentation.

Photo courtesy of Karuk Tribe.

News Release Date: August 27, 2020

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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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