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National Park Service FY 2013 Budget Justifications
Previous grants have included:
• A grant of $90,000 to the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians to conduct
a 3-day Tribal Consultation Meeting on Madeleine Island with the twelve Lake Superior Chippewa
Bands in order to determine the cultural affiliation of several NAGPRA inventories associated to
the "Lake Superior Chippewa" and to develop strategies for repatriation.
• A grant of $51,085 to the Del Norte County Historical Society to consult with eight tribes regarding
the cultural affiliation of items in their collection, hire a consultant to conduct their NAGPRA
activities and to attend NAGPRA trainings.
• A grant of $89,732 to the Organized Village of Kasaan to document historical links between the
Haida people of Kasaan and ceremonial/cultural objects in museums, to develop a Repatriation
Policy Manual, and to conduct three site visits to museums with documented Haida items.
• A grant of $59,127 to the Rochester Museum & Science Center to hire a consultant to assist with
establishing cultural affiliation and NAGPRA eligibility for Northwest Coast items, hire an
employee to finalize the digitization of the collection objects and their documentation, and consult
with representatives from the Tlingit and Haida tribes of Southeast Alaska to finalize cultural
affiliation.
NAGPRA Consultation and Documentation grants awarded during FY 2011:
NAME OF AWARD RECIPIENT AMOUNT
AWARDED
Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians $90,000
Caddo Indian Tribe of Oklahoma $68,717
California State, Sacramento $89,905
Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes $90,000
Del Norte County Historical Society $51,085
Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota $90,000
Greenville Rancheria $61,449
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe $74,823
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico $89,877
Oakland Museum $77,842
Organized Village of Kasaan $89,732
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology $90,000
Rochester Museum & Science Center $59,127
Sitka Tribe of Alaska $11,375
SUNY, College at Oswego $90,000
Susanville Indian Rancheria $90,000
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians $23,228
University of Colorado Museum, Boulder $59,120
Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission $87,053
White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation $89,997
Total Consultation/Documentation Grants $1,578,126
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