Native American/ Native Hawaiian Museum Services Grant Announcement

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Alaska

Cook Inlet Tribal Council - Anchorage, AK
Award Amount: $34,267; Matching Amount:$35,539

Contact: Ms. Angela Demma
Collections and Exhibits Curator
907-330-8023; ademma@alaskanative.net

Project Title: "Changing Lifestyles, Maintaining Values Exhibit"
The Cook Inlet Tribal Council and the Alaska Native Heritage Center will produce a large-scale exhibit, Changing Lifestyles and Maintaining Values, to be installed at the Alaska Native Heritage Center by May 31, 2008. This exhibit leverages current research initiatives to expand resources available to educate the public about centuries-old indigenous cultures of Alaska and to honor 10,000 years of original habitation on the Dena'ina Athabascan people in the Cook Inlet region.

Native Village of Eyak - Cordova, AK
Award Amount: $46,634; Matching Amount:$24,635

Contact: LaRue Barnes
Museum Director
907-424-7738; larue@nveyak.org

Project Title: "Weaving Our Strands: The History of the Native Village of Eyak People"
Through the collection of stories from elders and the engagement of youth interns, the Native Village of Eyak aims to make an effort to harvest stories, traditions, documents and other artifacts before these memories are lost to future generations. This project will document the stories and other collected materials using digital recording and preservation techniques to guarantee their survival for decades to come. All material will be cataloged and will go through a peer review process by other museum curators to ensure best practices are followed.

Hoonah Indian Association - Hoonah, AK
Award Amount: $49,930; Matching Amount:$22,568

Contact: Mary Beth Moss
907-945-3545 ext. 31; mbmoss@hiatribe.org

Project Title: "Haa Aani: Completing a 'Talking Map' for Huna Tlingit Territory"
The Hoonah Indian Association will use funding to 1) complete a computer-based, multimedia geographic "talking map" of the place names in the Huna Tlingit traditional territory; 2) develop kiosks and exhibits at the Cultural Heritage Center and Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Visitor Center; and 3) install the talking map database on computers at the Hoonah Indian Association headquarters and Hoonah City Schools. The learning tool will also be available on DVD for distribution to other interested individuals, agencies, and organizations. The completed talking map will allow users to click on a mapped location, hear a Tlingit pronunciation of the place name, see photographs of the location, and read both traditional and ethnographic information about the place.

Koniag, Incorporated - Kodiak, AK
Award Amount: $43,693; Matching Amount:$7,387

Contact: Dr. Sven Haakanson
Executive Director
907-486-7004; sven@alutiiqmuseum.com

Project Title: "Lighting our Ways"
Koniag Incorporated’s tribal museum, the Alutiiq Museum, will install a new gallery lighting system, train its staff to use the system, and host a lighting workshop for museum professionals in the Kodiak community.

Arizona

Havasupai Tribe - Supai, AZ
Award Amount: $42,038; Matching Amount:$3,650

Contact: Mr. Lawrence Carson
General Manager
928-448-2731 ext. 210; ljohncarson@msn.com

Project Title: "Preserving the Ways of an Ancient People"
The Havasupai Tribe will initiate a capacity-building project for the Havasupai Museum of Culture, located on the floor of the Grand Canyon. The project will focus on staff development through individualized tutorials and group learning, the addition of a full-time Museum Studies Fellow, and technical assistance consulting by staff members at the Museum of Northern Arizona.

White Mountain Apache Tribe - Whiteriver, AZ
Award Amount: $50,000; Matching Amount:$21,823

Contact: Dr. Karl Hoerig
Museum Director
928-338-4625; karlhoerig@hotmail.com

Project Title: "Continuing the Footsteps: Reinstallation of the Ndee Bike'/Footprints of the Apache Exhibit"
In 2004 Nohwike' Bagowa (House of the Footprints), the White Mountain Apache Cultural Center and Museum, opened the first, in-depth first-person interpretive exhibit of White Mountain Apache heritage and culture, Nedee Bike'/Footprints of the Apache. Object loans from a variety of museums that are featured prominently in this exhibition are scheduled to expire in 2008. Nohwike' Bagowa seeks to identify additional objects and secure new loans from museums to replace the current loans. These new loans will help ensure the long term conservation needs of the current loan objects and bring additional objects of Western Apache cultural heritage back to their communities of origin where they may be experienced by the local Apache community and its many visitors.

California

Karuk Tribe of California - Happy Camp, CA
Award Amount: $42,714; Matching Amount:$0

Contact: Mr. Leaf Hillman
Cultural Repatriation Coordinator
530-493-1600 ext. 2040; leafhillman@karuk.us

Project Title: "Karuk People's Center Programming Project"
The project will support the philosophy and work of the Karuk Tribe's People's Center. The primary purpose of the People's Center is to showcase the arts and long-standing cultural traditions of the Karuk People. This will be accomplished through the display of permanent and special collections, basket-weaving classes, regalia classes for men and women, staffing, community arts and crafts classes, and film showings. Additionally, the People's Center will host a biannual Basketweavers Gathering, to be held in the spring and fall. The Karuk People's Center Programming Project will improve the People's Center's services through its support of these vital educational demonstrations and special events.

Chemehuevi Indian Tribe of the Chemehuevi Reservation - Havasu Lake, CA
Award Amount: $49,998; Matching Amount:$85,232

Contact: Miss Cara McDonald
Cultural Director
760-874-3052; nuwugirl@mac.com

Project Title: "Suma'-ip Archives"
The Suma'-ip Archive of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe of the Chemehuevi Reservation will transform an existing room in the Chemehuevi Cultural Resource Center into a collective history repository and resource room for use by tribal members and scholars. Suma'-ip is a Chemehuevi word meaning "in remembrance of those before us."

Wiyot Tribe of California - Loleta, CA
Award Amount: $49,993; Matching Amount:$19,645

Contact: Ms. Helene Rouvier
Cultural Director/THPO
707-733-5055; cultural@wiyot.us

Project Title: "Wiyot Heritage Center Enhancement of Museum Services"
The Wiyot Tribe’s Heritage Center will implement systems needed to successfully operate the center, including strategic planning and the development of standard museum policies and procedures; the purchase of secure storage systems, cases, and equipment for fabricating display labels and mounts; and the purchase of supplies related to collections care and management. This project will also provide funding for professional consulting services and training for exhibit research, design, and installation; for conservation practices; and for linguistic materials. Lastly, the project will incorporate culturally sensitive protocols and methods for collections care and handling, and for culturally sensitive treatment of repatriated materials.

Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria - Loleta, CA
Award Amount: $49,731; Matching Amount:$0

Contact: Mr. Nick Angeloff
Cultural Resources Director
707-733-1900 ext. 233; thpo@bearrivertribe.com

Project Title: "Bear River Historic Record Digitization and Exhibition"
The Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria will create a digital heritage resource archive, formalize information into visual exhibits, and incorporate the exhibits into the existing facilities that are open to the public. The main objective of this project is to digitize historic records and photographs to serve five distinct goals set forth by the tribal council and the tribal community. This project will accomplish all five goals through the creation of a Geographic Information System and by displaying this information in a form that is sensitive to the preservation of the resources they represent.

Connecticut

Mashantucket Pequot Tribe of Connecticut - Mashantucket, CT
Award Amount: $39,411; Matching Amount:$54,597

Contact: Dr. Kevin McBride
Director of Research and Library Services
860-396-6814; kmcbride@mptn-nsn.gov

Project Title: "Pequot Student Historian Initiative"
The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation will use this grant to support the Pequot Student Historian Initiative for both tribal and non-tribal high school juniors. This project will be hosted by the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center (MPMRC) on its reservation in southeastern Connecticut. Two six-week-long Pequot Student Historian projects will be offered to approximately 20 Pequot high school juniors and their non-Native peers at five local high schools during the 2008 academic year. Students will work closely with museum professionals—including researchers, archivists, archaeologists, and our collections staff—to research an object from the museum's collections, and use primary source materials to write an article that will then be published in the New London Day and the Pequot Times. Students will also take field trips and present their findings to tribal elders and retirement communities.

Michigan

Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians - Harbor Springs, MI
Award Amount: $33,947; Matching Amount:$0

Contact: Ms. Winnay Wemigwase
Archives and Records Department Director
231-242-1453; wwemigwase@ltbbodawa-nsn.gov

Project Title: "Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians FY2007 Museum Services Project"
The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians (LTBB) proposes to enhance and improve museum services of the LTBB Archives and Records/Cultural Preservation Department for the tribal community. This goal will be met through the creation of a work group that will provide advice and assistance to the department as it works toward improved collections management capabilities, including the development of policies and procedures.

Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan - Mount Pleasant, MI
Award Amount: $49,603; Matching Amount:$0

Contact: Ms. Bonnie Ekdahl
Director
989-775-4750; bekdahl@sagchip.org

Project Title: "Anishinabemowin - Speaking Our Language III - language preservation"
This will be the third year of a language documentation project undertaken by the Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture and Lifeways Center of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan. The number of fluent speakers in this community is very low; therefore, the Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture and Lifeways Center has made recording the local dialect from those individuals its highest priority. In addition to the documenting process, immersion programs and language-related activities will be provided at the cultural center.

Nevada

Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe - Nixon, NV
Award Amount: $50,000; Matching Amount:$5,000

Contact: Mr. Ben Aleck
Collections Manager
775-574-1008; museum@plpt.nsn.us

Project Title: "Pyramid Lake Museum Services Enhancement and Support Project"
The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe will coordinate a project that will enhance activities and services at the tribe's cultural center, which is designed to promote and preserve the history, culture, and traditions of the Pyramid Lake people. This is a two-year project with expanded operations and services occurring over the project period. The collections inventory/enhanced exhibits will be completed in the project's first year. This project will enhance the cultural Center/museum and the tribe's efforts to preserve its culture, history, and traditions.

Oklahoma

Delaware Nation of Oklahoma - Anadarko, OK
Award Amount: $13,571; Matching Amount:$13,142

Contact: Ms. Tamara Francis
NAGPRA/Cultural Preservation Director
405-247-2448; tfrancis@delawarenation.com

Project Title: "Delaware Nation Museum Project FY07"
The Delaware Nation of Oklahoma will hold a series of recording sessions with tribal elders and tribal members to capture the history and stories behind objects in the museum’s collection. To further the educational experience of tribal members and the community, staff will make copies of the recorded sessions for use in the Delaware Nation Library as an education tool.

Osage Tribe - Pawhuska, OK
Award Amount: $44,844; Matching Amount:$12,823

Contact: Mrs. Kathryn Redcorn
Director
918-287-5441; kredcorn@osagetribe.org

Project Title: "Osage Nation Museum Enhancement Project"
A recent constitutional referendum by the Osage Tribe resulted in a revival of interest in tribal heritage by its members. In order to create public access to genealogical information, the tribe plans to digitize photographs taken of original allottees of the 1906 Alottment Act and, along with information on these people and their families, create a page on the museum’s website. Users may input information on family anecdotes and other information using an interactive interface with the website. All information will be sent to the museum staff and reviewed before it is made part of the gallery.

Citizen Potawatomi Nation - Shawnee, OK
Award Amount: $50,000; Matching Amount:$26,713

Contact: Mr. Grant Brittan
Production Manager
405-878-5830; gbrittan@potawatomi.org

Project Title: "Citizen Patawatomi Nation -- The Journey to Oklahoma"
The Citizen Potawatomi Nation will use grant funding to complete Phase I of a two-year project involving historical research, preproduction planning, and script writing for a documentary to be produced depicting the historical events surrounding the relocation of Citizen Potawatomi ancestral families from the Great Lakes Region to Oklahoma in the mid-1800s. The project will fill a gap in existing historical collections and supplement other evidence relating to the relocation of the tribe. Phase II, to be completed at the conclusion of the project, will involve the production and distribution of the documentary DVD.

Oregon

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation - Pendleton, OR
Award Amount: $47,086; Matching Amount:$22,198

Contact: Randall Melton
Collection Curator
541-966-1985; randall.melton@tamastslikt.org

Project Title: "Tamastslikt Collection Cataloguing Project"
Project staff of the Tamastslikt Cultural Center, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, will attend collections management trainings, review and update all registration files, and conduct inventory, catalogue, photograph documentation, and storage processes on collections objects. All compiled data will be organized in both a virtual database and a rotary file system.

Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Reservation - Siletz, OR
Award Amount: $49,059; Matching Amount:$82,442

Contact: Mr. Robert Kentta
Cultural Programs Director
541-444-2532; robertk@ctsi.nsn.us

Project Title: "Siletz Tribal Cultural Center Project"
The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians will undertake a project with the following goals: 1) to develop policies and procedures including inventory control for the care, protection and preservation of tribal collections, and 2) to design small exhibits in the repository facility until phase two of the cultural center is completed. To accomplish these goals, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians intend to hire a full-time Exhibits Coordinator/Technician who will work under the direction of the Cultural Programs Director and the tribal-appointed Cultural Committee.

Washington

Makah Indian Tribe - Neah Bay, WA
Award Amount: $50,000; Matching Amount:$8,277

Contact: Ms. Janine Bowechop
Executive Director
360-645-2711; mcrcjanine@centurytel.net

Project Title: "Makah Hunting and Plant Exhibits"
The Makah Indian Tribe will develop multimedia digital exhibits to interpret Makah history and culture for the proposed historical gallery at the Makah Cultural and Research Center.

Wisconsin

Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians - Hayward, WI
Award Amount: $50,000; Matching Amount:$0

Contact: Ms. Caryl Pfaff
Library Director
715-634-4790 ext. 108; pfaff@lco.edu

Project Title: "2007 Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Grant"
The Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa will use this grant to develop its cultural center into a regional resource facility dedicated to the collection and sharing of Ojibwe culture and knowledge and history. This will be accomplished through offering a wide range of cultural activities, including art exhibits, traditional art and language workshops, seasonal activities, poetry readings, plays, lectures, and craft fairs; and developing, expanding, and utilizing current collections. The project seeks to create positive changes in the lives of community members, resulting in increased cultural and self-awareness due to a better understanding of their rich Ojibwe heritage.

Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians - Lac du Flambeau, WI
Award Amount: $21,221; Matching Amount:$19,029

Contact: Ms. Christine Breault
Museum Director
715-588-3333; bearpaww@hotmail.com

Project Title: "Our Indian Ways Are Preserved"
The George W. Brown, Jr. Ojibwe Museum & Cultural Center will properly care for and preserve archived visual media and documented material about the culture, tribal membership, and historic events of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. This project will make the collection available for exhibition and educational programming by converting existing archival material into a useable CD-ROM and DVD format, developing a useable indexed database and library system, and preparing a computerized research tool for education about the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians.

Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians - Odanah, WI
Award Amount: $50,000; Matching Amount:$2,861

Contact: Ms. Edith Leoso
Historic Preservation Officer
715-682-7123 ext. 1662; thpo@badriver.com

Project Title: "Bad River History Research Project"
The Bad River Tribe will develop the historical context of its tribe, including the Town of Odanah, the aboriginal homelands in the surrounding area, and the tribal members associated with events that have made a contribution to the broad patterns of Bad River tribal history. The project will focus on establishing a tribal archives and research office; identifying, orienting and training interviewers; collecting and organizing historical information; and collecting information about the history of the Bad River Tribe from other museums and research centers.