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National Park Service Announces $85.15 Million in Historic Preservation Grants to States and Tribes

Historic properties around the country have received grants from the National Park Service for preservation-related projects.

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News Release Date: May 6, 2024

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WASHINGTON – The National Park Service (NPS) today announced the distribution of $62.15 million in Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) grants to historic preservation offices in states, territories, the District of Columbia, and partnering nations, and $23 million to Tribal historic preservation offices. 

“The National Park Service is proud to support our state, Tribal, and local partners with annual funding that helps them preserve their significant historic and cultural places,” said National Park Service Director Chuck Sams. “Importantly, these grants aid communities across the country to invest in local stewardship of treasured resources.” 

Established in 1977, the Historic Preservation Fund was authorized at $150 million per year through 2023 and has provided more than $2.7 billion in historic preservation grants to states, Tribes, local governments, and nonprofit organizations. Administered by the NPS, the funds appropriated by Congress support a variety of historic preservation programs and projects to help preserve the nation’s cultural resources and history.  

The HPF is supported by Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas lease revenues, not tax dollars, with the intent to mitigate the loss of a non-renewable resource to benefit the preservation of other irreplaceable resources. 

Read more about the HPF in the FY 2023 annual report. 

Preservation in Action 
 

State and Local Preservation Grants 

Annual HPF grants fund preservation programs at 59 state historic preservation offices and ensure support of local preservation with a required 10 percent pass-through from states to over 2,200 Certified Local Governments (CLGs) via competitive subgrants.  

Examples of the diversity of work accomplished with this annual funding in recent years include: 

• South Carolina successfully listed its first Traditional Cultural Property, the Phillips Community Historic District in Charleston County, in the National Register of Historic Places. The listing recognizes the unique culture and heritage of the community and provides additional awareness and serves as an educational tool for the community to help its preservation efforts. 

• Ball State University’s History Department identified and surveyed all purpose-built synagogues in Indiana, collecting photos and documents related to these buildings, and compiling a report of the findings that included recommendations for possible listings on the National Register of Historic Places. The team consulted newspapers and secondary sources and also conducted research in several Jewish archives and repositories. This resulted in a list of 88 synagogues across Indiana that were built between 1865 and 2015. Further research revealed that 66 of these buildings were purpose-built synagogues; the others were churches, homes, or other buildings that were adapted for later use as synagogues.  

• Mysterious rows, walls, and piles of carefully stacked stones exist in rural areas throughout Pennsylvania. Many were created by early European settlers as they cleared land for farms and communities, while others are believed to have earlier Tribal origins. State archaeologists explored these stone landscapes to discover clues about their age and purpose, and record the locations in the Pennsylvania Archaeological Site Survey, the statewide inventory of approximately 25,000 archaeological sites that represents more than 16,000 years of Pennsylvania’s history. Recording archaeological sites such as the stone landscapes is an important step in the consideration and potential protection of these sites under state and federal laws. The records preserve basic information about the sites — the when, where and what — and are digitally stored for research access by professional archaeologists. 

Tribal Preservation Grants 

Annual HPF grants fund preservation programs at Tribal historic preservation offices to ensure preservation of Tribal sites and cultural traditions.  

Examples of the diversity of work accomplished with this annual funding in recent years include:   

• The Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation Tribal historic preservation office worked with four properties eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. One is named Shin-yvslh-sri~ /Lht'vsr-me' (Summer-gathering/harvesting-place/sand-in-place), which is located within the Redwood National and State Parks system. The Tribe continues collaborative efforts with the park to update the nomination of this landscape, while addressing concerns with the collection of cultural resources and issues of Tribal consent. 

• The Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians hired two cultural consultants to conduct a survey of the history of the Tribe's 75-acre Rancheria, which was established in 1915, at a time when Dry Creek people were without a homeland. While no one lives on the Rancheria today, the history of life there and the use of the land are highly significant to Tribal members. The project resulted in oral histories of life on the Rancheria in danger of being forgotten by interviewing Tribal elders who lived on the Rancheria, and their descendants. 

• The Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria provides educational programming in dressmaking, regalia, motherhood, basket weaving and archery during several cultural classes a week. This programming helps to educate the future generations and preserve the cultural traditions of the tribe. 

State and Local Preservation Grants 

Total Award $62,150,000. Funds 59 State Historic Preservation Offices and requires a 40 percent non-federal match, which leverages state, local and private dollars for even more community investment. Ten percent of funding awarded to states must be granted to their Certified Local Governments. 

State Historic Preservation Office	Award
Alabama	$1,101,411
Alaska	$1,395,234
American Samoa	$457,295
Arizona	$1,229,174
Arkansas	$991,478
California	$2,178,979
Colorado	$1,213,636
Commonwealth of The Northern Mariana Islands	$474,241
Connecticut	$940,213
Delaware	$668,277
District of Columbia	$627,847
Federated States of Micronesia	$545,891
Florida	$1,551,904
Georgia	$1,274,793
Guam	$484,673
Hawaii	$751,525
Idaho	$963,809
Illinois	$1,497,084
Indiana	$1,196,472
Iowa	$1,071,922
Kansas	$1,090,324
Kentucky	$1,069,341
Louisiana	$1,094,775
Maine	$877,873
Maryland	$1,060,521
Massachusetts	$1,157,066
Michigan	$1,482,403
Minnesota	$1,238,175
Mississippi	$979,581
Missouri	$1,236,513
Montana	$1,024,898
Nebraska	$1,010,330
Nevada	$1,037,725
New Hampshire	$767,662
New Jersey	$1,212,233
New Mexico	$1,060,235
New York	$1,787,942
North Carolina	$1,286,023
North Dakota	$869,584
Ohio	$1,447,930
Oklahoma	$1,102,117
Oregon	$1,161,729
Pennsylvania	$1,514,473
Puerto Rico	$870,008
Republic of Palau	$316,369
Republic of The Marshall Islands	$316,369
Rhode Island	$704,548
South Carolina	$1,030,316
South Dakota	$896,513
Tennessee	$1,155,572
Texas	$1,970,659
Utah	$1,039,646
Vermont	$693,085
Virgin Islands	$494,453
Virginia	$1,222,930
Washington	$1,253,080
West Virginia	$880,133
Wisconsin	$1,233,612
Wyoming	$887,396
Total	$62,150,000

Tribal Preservation Grants 

Total award $23,000,000. Funds 221 Tribal Historic Preservation Offices with no match required, enabling these Tribes to assume SHPO responsibilities on Tribal lands and save important cultural places and traditions.  

State Name	Tribe Name	Award
Oklahoma	Absentee Shawnee Tribe	$91,147
California	Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians	$97,120
Maine	Aroostook Band of Micmacs	$92,369
Wisconsin	Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians	$112,581
Michigan	Bay Mills Indian Community	$95,997
California	Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria	$88,918
California	Big Pine Paiute Tribe of Owens Valley	$89,636
California	Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians of the Big Valley Rancheria	$90,008
California	Bishop Paiute Tribe	$91,738
Montana	Blackfeet Nation	$138,107
California	Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe of Indians	$88,050
Minnesota	Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Indians	$112,837
California	Bridgeport Indian Colony	$87,925
California	Buena Vista Rancheria Me Wuk Indians of California	$87,739
Oregon	Burns Paiute Tribe	$92,021
Oklahoma	Caddo Tribe of Oklahoma	$88,051
California	Cahuilla Band of Indians	$101,552
South Carolina	Catawba Indian Nation	$92,121
California	Chemechuevi Indian Tribe of Chemechuevi Reservation	$104,482
California	Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria	$87,968
Oklahoma	Cherokee Nation	$106,039
Oklahoma	Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes	$98,941
South Dakota	Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe	$143,947
Montana	Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation	$112,304
Louisiana	Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana	$90,426
Oklahoma	Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma	$100,817
Oklahoma	Citizen Potawatomi	$92,213
Idaho	Coeur D'Alene Tribe	$122,302
Arizona	Colorado River Indian Tribes of the Colorado River Indian Reservation	$119,326
Oklahoma	Comanche Nation	$93,192
Montana	Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Nation	$136,124
Washington	Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation	$136,882
Washington	Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation	$96,281
Washington	Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation	$136,940
Oregon	Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians	$100,491
Oregon	Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Indian Community of Oregon	$99,117
Oregon	Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation	$118,119
Oregon	Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon	$127,740
Oregon	Coquille Indian Tribe	$97,254
Louisiana	Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana	$92,139
Oregon	Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians	$102,393
Washington	Cowlitz Indian Tribe	$88,802
South Dakota	Crow Creek Sioux Tribe	$119,658
Montana	Crow Tribe of Indians	$143,935
Oklahoma	Delaware Nation	$94,521
Kansas	Delaware Tribe of Indians	$85,333
California	Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians	$87,850
Nevada	Duckwater Shoshone Tribe of the Duckwater Reservation	$104,613
North Carolina	Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians	$107,326
Oklahoma	Eastern Shawnee of Oklahoma	$91,177
California	Elem Indian Colony	$87,397
California	Elk Valley Rancheria	$90,237
California	Enterprise Rancheria of Maidu Indians	$87,925
California	Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria	$89,488
South Dakota	Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe	$93,922
Minnesota	Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa	$111,150
Wisconsin	Forest County Potawatomi Community	$99,633
Montana	Fort Belknap Indian Community	$127,637
California	Fort Independence Indian Community of Paiute Indians of the Fort Independence Indian Reservation	$90,850
Montana	Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes	$142,620
Arizona	Gila River Indian Community	$121,812
Minnesota	Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa	$106,385
California	Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake	$86,115
Wisconsin	Ho-Chunk Nation	$94,042
Washington	Hoh Indian Tribe	$91,681
California	Hoopa Valley	$110,345
Arizona	Hopi Tribe of Arizona	$140,273
California	Hopland Band of Pomo Indians	$93,784
Maine	Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians	$99,681
Arizona	Hualapai Tribe	$132,535
Kansas	Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska	$99,604
Washington	Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe	$91,663
California	Jamul Indian Village	$85,703
Louisiana	Jena Band of Choctaw Indians	$87,672
New Mexico	Jicarilla Apache Nation	$131,052
California	Karuk Tribe	$91,604
California	Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of Stewarts Point Rancheria	$90,717
Michigan	Keweenaw Bay Indian Community	$107,176
Oklahoma	Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma	$104,246
California	La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians	$98,308
Wisconsin	Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin	$109,421
Wisconsin	Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians	$110,584
Michigan	Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians	$89,755
Minnesota	Leech Lake Band of Chippewa Indians	$128,025
Michigan	Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians	$92,358
Oklahoma	Lovelock Paiute Tribe of the Lovelock Indian Colony	$86,558
Minnesota	Lower Sioux Indian Community	$93,352
Washington	Lummi Nation	$102,044
Washington	Makah Tribe	$103,436
California	Manzanita Band of Diegueno Mission Indians	$96,098
Connecticut	Mashantucket Western Pequot Tribe	$93,189
Michigan	Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan	$90,993
California	Mechoopda Tribe of the Chico Rancheria	$91,138
Wisconsin	Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin	$117,621
New Mexico	Mescalero Apache Tribe	$123,916
Oklahoma	Miami Tribe of Oklahoma	$90,178
California	Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians	$88,300
Minnesota	Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Indians	$111,424
Nevada	Moapa Band of Paiute Indians of Moapa River Indian Reservation	$108,892
Oklahoma	Modoc Nation	$89,944
Connecticut	Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut	$90,663
California	Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California	$89,792
California	Morongo Band of Mission Indians	$104,350
Oklahoma	Muscogee (Creek) Nation	$97,491
Rhode Island	Narragansett Indian Tribe	$93,661
Arizona	Navajo Nation	$183,783
Idaho	Nez Perce Tribe of Indians	$129,496
Washington	Nooksack Tribe	$89,687
Wyoming	Northern Arapaho Tribe	$143,821
Montana	Northern Cheyenne Tribe	$123,678
Michigan	Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potowatomi	$89,719
South Dakota	Oglala Sioux Tribe	$142,127
Nebraska	Omaha Tribe of Nebraska	$116,201
Wisconsin	Oneida Nation	$97,857
Alaska	Organized Village of Kake	$86,276
Oklahoma	Osage Nation	$101,852
Oklahoma	Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma	$94,833
Oklahoma	Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma	$88,834
Nevada	Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and Colony	$98,101
California	Pala Band of Mission Indians	$99,954
Arizona	Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona	$94,013
Oklahoma	Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians	$94,102
Maine	Passamaquoddy Tribe	$113,098
Oklahoma	Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma	$93,050
California	Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pechanga Reservation	$93,270
Maine	Penobscot Nation	$109,455
California	Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians	$88,885
California	Pinoleville Pomo Nation	$88,192
California	Pit River Tribe	$100,149
Alabama	Poarch Band of Creek Indians	$89,342
Michigan	Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians	$95,138
Oklahoma	Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma	$93,802
Nebraska	Ponca Tribe of Nebraska	$88,799
Washington	Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe	$92,728
Kansas	Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation	$126,251
Minnesota	Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of Minnesota	$94,138
New Mexico	Pueblo of Acoma	$123,076
New Mexico	Pueblo of Isleta	$119,820
New Mexico	Pueblo of Jemez	$110,297
New Mexico	Pueblo of Laguna	$124,777
New Mexico	Pueblo of Pojoaque	$99,592
New Mexico	Pueblo of San Felipe	$107,734
New Mexico	Pueblo of San Ildefonso	$105,251
New Mexico	Pueblo of Santa Ana	$109,112
New Mexico	Pueblo of Santa Clara	$107,242
New Mexico	Pueblo of Tesuque	$101,028
New Mexico	Pueblo of Zia	$114,499
New Mexico	Pueblo of Zuni	$123,973
Nevada	Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe	$124,184
Oklahoma	Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma	$92,589
Washington	Quinault Indian Nation	$116,586
Wisconsin	Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa	$100,394
Minnesota	Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians	$130,006
Nevada	Reno Sparks Indian Colony	$100,668
California	Resighini Rancheria	$89,323
California	Rincon Band of Luiseno Mission Indians	$96,151
South Dakota	Rosebud Sioux Tribe of Indians	$131,532
California	Round Valley Indian Tribe	$104,902
Iowa	Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa	$97,178
Michigan	Saginaw Chippewa	$113,472
Arizona	Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community	$107,111
Washington	Samish Indian Nation	$87,881
Arizona	San Carlos Apache Tribe	$140,848
California	San Manuel Band of Mission Indians	$92,293
California	San Pasqual Band of Diegueno Mission Indians	$93,681
California	Santa Rosa Rancheria	$93,149
California	Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians	$93,086
Nebraska	Santee Sioux Tribe	$112,149
New Mexico	Santo Domingo Pueblo	$110,875
Washington	Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe	$88,364
Florida	Seminole Tribe of Florida	$110,395
Oklahoma	Seneca Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma	$92,792
New York	Seneca Nation of Indians	$107,157
Oklahoma	Shawnee Tribe	$88,312
California	Sherwood Valley Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians of California	$90,732
California	Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians	$88,808
Wyoming	Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation	$143,821
South Dakota	Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate	$103,277
Washington	Skokomish Indian Tribe	$96,381
California	Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians	$97,946
Wisconsin	Sokaogon Chippewa Community	$95,025
Colorado	Southern Ute Indian Tribe of Southern Ute Reservation	$127,194
North Dakota	Spirit Lake Tribe of Fort Totten	$117,983
Washington	Spokane Tribe of Indians	$114,323
Washington	Squaxin Island Tribe	$93,667
New York	St. Regis Mohawk	$100,982
North Dakota	Standing Rock Sioux Tribe	$144,260
Washington	Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians	$91,796
Wisconsin	Stockbridge-Munsee Community	$101,041
Nevada	Summit Lake Paiute Tribe	$99,623
Washington	Suquamish Tribe	$97,909
California	Susanville Indian Rancheria	$92,247
Washington	Swinomish Indian Tribal Community	$99,036
Oklahoma	The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma	$90,375
Oklahoma	Thlopthlocco Tribal Town	$94,132
North Dakota	Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation (Mandan, Hidatsa, & Arikara Nation)	$132,771
California	Timbisha Shoshone Tribe	$97,903
Arizona	Tohono O'odham Nation	$147,378
California	Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation	$87,231
Louisiana	Tunica-Biloxi Indians of Louisiana	$91,359
North Dakota	Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa	$109,269
California	Twenty-nine Palms Band of Mission Indians	$89,989
California	United Auburn Indian Community of the Auburn Rancheria	$92,504
Oklahoma	United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma	$87,866
Minnesota	Upper Sioux Community	$92,911
Utah	Ute Indian Tribe of Uintah and Ouray Reservation	$155,105
Colorado	Ute Mountain Ute	$127,111
Nevada	Walker River Paiute Tribe of the Walker River Reservation	$120,914
Massachusetts	Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)	$90,573
Nevada	Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California	$96,059
Minnesota	White Earth Band of Minnesota Chippewa	$130,464
Arizona	White Mountain Apache Tribe	$139,318
Oklahoma	Wichita and Affiliated Tribes	$94,537
California	Wilton Rancheria	$87,064
Nebraska	Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska	$111,873
California	Wiyot Tribe	$88,300
Oklahoma	Wyandotte Nation	$89,934
South Dakota	Yankton Sioux Tribe	$107,318
California	Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation	$92,269
Texas	Ysleta del Sur Pueblo	$94,932
California	Yurok Tribe	$107,371
Total		$23,000,000

For more information about NPS historic preservation programs and grants, please visit http://go.nps.gov/grants   

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