**A Report on**

**Fiscal Year 1998 Historic Preservation Fund Grants to Indian Tribes
and Alaska Natives**

**and Native Hawaiians**

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**United States Department of the Interior**

**National Park Service**

**Heritage Preservation Services**

**Tribal Preservation Program**

## INTRODUCTION

The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 authorizes grants to
Indian tribes for cultural and historic preservation projects. Now in
its ninth year, this grant program assists American Indians and Alaska
Natives in protecting and promoting their unique cultural traditions.

From the beginning, the program has been shaped by Indian tribes. Tribal
representatives defined \"his­toric preservation from a tribal
perspective\" in a National Park Service report to Congress in 1990.
*Keepers of the Treasures \-- Protecting Historic Properties and
Cultural Traditions on Indian Land* describes, in the words of Indian
people, what they are concerned with protecting. Native language, oral
history, plant and animal species important in tradition, sacred and
historic places, and the establishment of tribal historic preservation
offices are all part of preservation from a tribal perspective. The
grants selected in Fiscal Year 1998 continue to reflect this broad range
of funding needs.

Since 1990, just over 12 million dollars has been awarded to 280 Indian
and Alaska Native communities. In Fiscal Year 1998, a total of
\$1,101,000 is being awarded to 27 communities for a broad range of
historic preservation projects. The projects selected for funding are
summarized below.

**[GRANT SELECTION PROCESS]{.underline}**

Federally recognized Indian tribes, Alaska Native groups, and Native
Hawaiian organizations were invited to submit grant applications to
support historic preservation projects and promote the continuation of
living cultural traditions.

The application guidelines listed four major categories of eligible
activities for Historic Preservation Fund grants: locating and
identifying cultural resources, preservation planning, documentation of
history and traditions, and education and training projects in historic
and cultural preservation.

Grant applications and application guidelines were mailed in October
1997 to the chief elected officials of all Federally recognized Indian
tribes, Alaska Native groups, Native Hawaiian organizations, and to
others on a mailing list of over 4,000 individuals and organizations. In
all, 137 proposals were received requesting approximately \$6 million.

Each application was evaluated by panels of experts who met in
Washington, D.C. the week of

March 23, 1998. The panels were comprised of Federal employees from a
variety of agencies and are listed below.

**[GRANT APPLICATION REVIEW CONSIDERATIONS]{.underline}**

Reviewers were asked to consider the following in evaluating
applications:

1.  How does this project address a critical cultural or historic
    preservation issue for the tribe?

2.  Are the project objectives, activities, and desired results
    (products) well-designed, thought-through, and achievable?

3.  Will the project be carried out by qualified people?

4.  Is the project budget clear and reasonable?

5.  Is there demonstrable commitment to this project by the tribe?

6.  What is the lasting impact on and benefit to the tribe if the
    project is successfully completed?

##  

## FISCAL YEAR 1998 GRANTS SELECTION PANEL PARTICIPANTS

**David Banks**

National Park Service

**Charlie Bunch**

Bureau of Indian Affairs

# Karen Cooper

Smithsonian Institution

# Paula Creech

National Park Service

**Bruce Crespin**

Bureau of Land Management

# Cynthia Ellis-Pinto

Bureau of Land Management

**Ronald Emery**

National Park Service

# Nancy Fuller

Smithsonian Institution

# Ginny Gorman

Department of Health and Human Services

# Marian Hanson

Bureau of Indian Affairs

# Jean Luka

Administration for Native Americans

# Tom McCulloch

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

**Ed Natay**

National Park Service

# Michael Quijano

National Park Service

**Jim Reinholz**

National Park Service

**Donald Sutherland**

Bureau of Indian Affairs

**Barbara Sutteer**

National Park Service

# Jacilee Wray

National Park Service

# Fred York

National Park Service

**Fiscal Year 1998 Historic Preservation Fund Grants to**

**Indian Tribes, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians**

+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| **Tribe \[State\]**                                   | ## Amount    |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| 'Ahahui 'Olelo Hawai'i \[HI\]                         | 50,000       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Caddo Tribe of Oklahoma \[OK\]                        | 50,000       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Central Council of Tlingit and Haida \[AK\]           | 40,400       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians \[OR\]        | 49,300       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Coquille \[OR\]                                       | 30,100       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Fort Mojave \[AZ\]                                    | 49,000       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Iowa of Kansas and Nebraska \[KS\]                    | 15,000       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Kaibab Band of Paiute \[AZ\]                          | 49,900       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Klawock \[AK\]                                        | 46,200       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians \[MI\]     | 8,075        |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Native Village of Mekoryuk \[AK\]                     | 50,000       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Menominee \[WI\]                                      | 20,000       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Modoc of Oklahoma \[OK\]                              | 46,700       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Nisqually \[WA\]                                      | 50,000       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Oneida of Wisconsin \[WI\]                            | 5,000        |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Pawnee \[OK\]                                         | 50,000       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Pedro Bay Village \[AK\]                              | 36,400       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Port Gamble S'Klallam \[WA\]                          | 46,300       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Pueblo of Acoma \[NM\]                                | 50,000       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Qagan Tayagungin \[AK\]                               | 21,000       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewas \[WI\]      | 49,400       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Pueblo of Sandia \[NM\]                               | 42,600       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| SEAICC \[AK\]                                         | 12,000       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Aleut Community of St. Paul Island \[AK\]             | 50,000       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| St. Regis Mohawk-Akwesasne Museum \[NY\]              | 50,000       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Tanana Chiefs Conference \[AK\]                       | 47,300       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| White Mountain Apache \[AZ\]                          | 49,900       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| #### Wyandotte \[OK\]                                 | 42,600       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Zuni \[NM\]                                           | 44,500       |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| **Total**                                             | **\$         |
|                                                       | 1,151,675**  |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------+

##### Project Descriptions

### Alaska

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  Tribe:         **Aleut Community of St. Paul Island**

  Project Title: **Planning for Funter Bay, Alaska Historic Site
                 Preservation, Protection, Restoration, and National
                 Register Designation**

  Grant Award:   **\$50,000.00**

  Description:   Perform the initial planning to preserve and document the
                 Funter Bay Historic Site. Funter Bay is the site of the
                 Pribilof Aleut internment camp during World War II. The
                 project will document elders' accounts of their
                 internment experience, identify graves sites and
                 cemeteries, and start to develop a preservation plan for
                 the site.
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  Tribe:         **Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indians**

  Project Title: **Southeast Alaska Native Place Names Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$40,400.00**

  Description:   Document native place names in Southeast Alaska.
                 Indigenous place names are valuable linguistic artifacts
                 containing a wealth of cultural and environmental
                 information about Southeast Alaska lands and waters. This
                 project will create a geographic atlas of the traditional
                 place names for landscapes and features.
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  Tribe:         **Klawock Cooperative Association**

  Project Title: **Klawock Henya Kwaan Tlingit Heritage Resources Survey
                 Map**

  Grant Award:   **\$46,200.00**

  Description:   Locate, identify and document important traditional,
                 historic, and archeological sites and place them on USGS
                 quadrangle maps. This information will assist in land-use
                 planning as well as be a valuable tool in cultural
                 preservation. Elders will identify the traditional names
                 for these important areas.
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  Tribe:         **Native Village of Mekoryuk, Indian Reorganization Act
                 Council**

  Project Title: **Nuniwarmuit Cultural Programs Planning Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$50,000.00**

  Description:   Establish a village based comprehensive cultural program.
                 This project is an outgrowth of a 1994 NPS grant to
                 identify traditional place names on Nunivak Island. The
                 tribe wants a sustainable non-profit organization to
                 coordinate cultural heritage preservation for the
                 village.
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  Tribe:         **Pedro Bay Village Council**

  Project Title: **Pedro Bay Traditional Sites and Uses Video Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$36,400.00**

  Description:   Produce two documentary videos about Pedro Bay village.
                 The first video will deal primarily with the history of
                 the village and sites connected with it; the second will
                 be a collection of the oral histories, site visits, and
                 other cultural information collected while producing the
                 history video.
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  Tribe:         **Qagan Tayagungin Tribal Council**

  Project Title: **Aleut Life Stories: Something Of Yesterday For
                 Tomorrow**

  Grant Award:   **\$21,000.00**

  Description:   Record oral histories of thirty Aleut elders from Eastern
                 Aleutian villages. This project will document traditional
                 Aleut stories and dance, the subsistence lifestyle of the
                 Eastern Aleuts, the development of commercial fisheries,
                 and the effect of World War II on the Aleut people.
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  Tribe:         **Southeast Alaska Indian Cultural Center/Sitka Tribe of
                 Alaska**

  Project Title: **Documentary Video of Canoe Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$12,000.00**

  Description:   Document the carving of a 35-foot traditional Tlingit
                 canoe and production of a 30-minute edited video. The
                 video will include the actual carving of the canoe,
                 archival photos of old canoes and ceremonies associated
                 with launching canoes, interviews with elders about the
                 canoeing tradition, and footage of the ceremony to launch
                 the new canoe.
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  Tribe:         **Tanana Chiefs Conference, Inc.**

  Project Title: **Inventory of ANCSA Historic and Cemetery Site Records
                 for Tribal-Based Historic Preservation Planning**

  Grant Award:   **\$47,300.00**

  Description:   Index and catalogue BIA inventory of approximately 485
                 traditional cultural properties within the Tanana Chiefs
                 Conference (TCC) region of central Alaska. This
                 information will assist in the development of TCC's
                 Comprehensive Historic Preservation Plan for the 250,000
                 acres of Native Allotments and Townsite lots administered
                 as federal trust lands in the TCC region.
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### Arizona

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  Tribe:         **Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians**

  Project Title: **Survey and Inventory of Cultural Resources on the
                 Kaibab Indian Reservation**

  Grant Award:   **\$49,900.00**

  Description:   Survey high priority areas within the reservation to
                 locate and record significant cultural resource sites
                 including archeological, ethnographic, and historic
                 resources. Identified sites will be placed within the
                 tribe's Geographic Information System's (GIS) inventory
                 data base. Tribal cultural resource staff and other
                 community members will be trained in the technical
                 methods used to identify, record, monitor, and protect
                 these sites.
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  Tribe:         **White Mountain Apache Tribe**

  Project Title: **Western Apache Place Names Survey**

  Grant Award:   **\$49,900.00**

  Description:   Survey landscapes and land features that are associated
                 with the Western Apache culture to develop an Apache
                 place name atlas. Elders, cultural and language
                 specialists will travel to these sites in order to
                 document the traditional names and to record oral
                 histories associated with the sites.
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### California

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  Tribe:         **Fort Mojave Indian Tribe**

  Project Title: **AHA MACAV Historic and Cultural Resource Preservation**

  Grant Award:   **\$49,000.00**

  Description:   Develop a unified tribal cultural committee to help the
                 tribe create a sustainable Fort Mojave Cultural Program.
                 The tribe will also work with the Arizona State Historic
                 Preservation Office, Northern Arizona University's
                 Institute for Native Americans, and the Hualapai, White
                 Mountain Apache, and Navajo tribes to obtain historic
                 preservation education and training for cultural
                 committee members.
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### Hawaii

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  Tribe:         **\'Ahahui Olelo Hawai\'i**

  Project Title: **South Kona Oral History Video Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$50,000.00**

  Description:   Document the stories and cultural traditions of the
                 elders from South Kona. Conduct master-apprentice
                 sessions with the elders to transmit their cultural
                 practices to the rest of the community. The video footage
                 will be broadcast on public access television
                 highlighting Native Hawaiian culture.
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### Kansas

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  Tribe:         **Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska**

  Project Title: **Documenting Oral Traditions**

  Grant Award:   **\$15,000.00**

  Description:   Conduct thirty oral interviews with tribal elders on
                 audio and video tape. The tribe will interview thirty
                 tribal elders about cultural traditions, historic
                 landmarks, and tribal history. The interviews will be
                 transcribed, indexed, and placed in archival storage to
                 preserve this information for the future. A mobile
                 exhibit of the elders and quotes from their interviews
                 will be created and displayed at schools and social
                 gatherings of the tribe.
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**New Mexico**

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  Tribe:         **Pueblo of Acoma**

  Project Title: **Restoration of Acoma History and Preservation Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$50,000.00**

  Description:   Research and identify early Acoma photographs, collect
                 and duplicate photographs, slides, and negatives, and
                 index and catalogue the collected materials. The tribe
                 will purchase a computer, scanner, printer, as well as
                 the necessary software to store and preserve the material
                 on an automated data storage system---eventually creating
                 a world wide web site for greater access to the indexed
                 and catalogued images.
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  Tribe:         **Pueblo of Sandia**

  Project Title: **Pueblo of Sandia Plaza Restoration Study**

  Grant Award:   **\$42,600.00**

  Description:   Conduct an architectural survey of the Plaza area of the
                 Pueblo of Sandia. Each building will be thoroughly
                 documented through photos, measurements and architectural
                 drawings. The exposed beams and vigas will be examined
                 for rot or damage and the footings will be thoroughly
                 studied.
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  Tribe:         **Pueblo of Zuni**

  Project Title: **Zuni Inventory of Significant Trails and Traditional
                 Places**

  Grant Award:   **\$44,500.00**

  Description:   Collect information necessary to locate and map
                 traditional trails and significant places within the
                 community. Zuni elders will be interviewed and the
                 information gathered will be recorded on maps,
                 photographs, video and audio tapes, and stored in the
                 Heritage and Historic Preservation Office.
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### New York

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  Tribe:         **Akwesasne Cultural Center, Inc./Akwesasne Museum**

  Project Title: **Akwesasne Museum Photographic Material Care and
                 Management Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$50,000.00**

  Description:   This grant will carry out some of the
                 recommendations/conclusions contained in a 1997
                 Conservation Assessment Program (CAP) performed on the
                 Akwesasne Museum collection. A more detailed assessment
                 of the photographic collection will be conducted to allow
                 the museum to focus its conservation efforts. Basic
                 cataloguing, labeling, and conservation measures will be
                 performed on the photographic collection, and
                 conservation equipment and supplies will be purchased to
                 enable better management of the collection.
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**Oklahoma**

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  Tribe:         **Caddo Tribe of Oklahoma**

  Project Title: **Caddo Tribe Historic Preservation Office Implementation
                 Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$50,000.00**

  Description:   Staff will be hired and trained in historic preservation
                 theory, law, and practice. A tribal preservation handbook
                 will be developed for the Caddo Historic Preservation
                 Office and formal Memoranda of Agreement between the
                 tribe and state, federal and other agencies will be
                 drafted.
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  Tribe:         **Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma**

  Project Title: **Modoc Historical Archive Development Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$46,700.00**

  Description:   Develop a photographic educational tool to share the
                 Modoc history between tribal members in Oklahoma and
                 their relatives who were not removed from Southern
                 Oregon. The tribe has identified 575 historic photographs
                 of Modoc people and culture they will copy on to 33 mm.
                 slides and into digital format to be shared by tribes,
                 local community groups and schools. The tribe will
                 develop slide programs and combine historic audio
                 recordings of traditional songs with digital copies of
                 the photographs to make compact disks to be used on
                 computers.
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  Tribe:         **Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma**

  Project Title: **Pawnee Tribal Facilities Rehabilitation Plans and
                 Land-Use Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$50,000.00**

  Description:   Conduct historical research on the tribe's 11 stone
                 buildings that once served as a federal Indian agency and
                 boarding school. Structural and overall condition
                 assessments will be performed as well as other
                 documentation necessary to complete a National Register
                 nomination. Architectural and engineering drawings for
                 the buildings' reuse will also be produced.
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### Oregon

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  Tribe:         **Coquille Indian Tribe**

  Project Title: **Coquille River Archeological Site Documentation and
                 Assessment Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$30,100.00**

  Description:   Survey and inventory archeological sites on 35 miles of
                 the Coquille River. Assess the sites and submit eligible
                 properties to the National Register of Historic Places.
                 This project will be done in cooperation with the
                 University of Oregon's Department of Anthropology and the
                 Coos County Planning Department.
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  Tribe:         **The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and
                 Siuslaw Indians**

  Project Title: **Surveying, Assessing, Mapping, and Recording Important
                 Historic Cultural Sites of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and
                 Siuslaw Indians**

  Grant Award:   **\$49,300.00**

  Description:   Locate, identify, assess and map historic and cultural
                 sites found at the mouths of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and
                 Siuslaw rivers. The tribes will inventory and assess
                 current conditions of these sites and develop an ongoing
                 site monitoring program. The tribe will utilize
                 Geographic Information System (GIS) and Global
                 Positioning Satellite (GPS) technology to map the sites
                 using data layers consistent with the U.S. Forest
                 Service's database to effectively work together to manage
                 the sites.
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### Washington

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  Tribe:         **Nisqually Indian Tribe**

  Project Title: **Nisqually Indian Tribe Historic Preservation Education
                 Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$50,000.00**

  Description:   Develop historic preservation training curriculum
                 designed for tribal leaders, the Nisqually Historic
                 Committee, and tribal cultural resource protection staff.
                 This project will be conducted in conjunction with the
                 Northwest Indian College, the South Puget Intertribal
                 Planning Agency, Evergreen State College's Longhouse
                 Project, and the Washington State Governor's Office of
                 Indian Affairs.
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  Tribe:         **Port Gamble S\'Klallam Tribe**

  Project Title: **Capturing Traditions**

  Grant Award:   **\$46,300.00**

  Description:   Document the oral transmission of knowledge and skills
                 during the carving and building of a Northwest Coastal
                 longhouse. Tribal members will use video and audio tape
                 and photographs to document carvers and community
                 interaction during the planning, design, and carving of
                 totems, and the building of the longhouse.
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### Wisconsin

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  Tribe:         **Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin**

  Project Title: **Menominee Indian Comprehensive Plan**

  Grant Award:   **\$20,000.00**

  Description:   Develop a comprehensive cultural resource management
                 (CRM) plan and a tribal ordinance to provide enforcement
                 for the CRM plan. The tribe will also develop a database
                 of historic and cultural sites and information. The
                 long-range goal is to establish a Tribal Historic
                 Preservation Office to assume historic preservation
                 responsibilities on the Reservation pursuant to Section
                 101(d) of the National Historic Preservation Act.
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  Tribe:         **Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin**

  Project Title: **Preserving the History of Oneida Spoken to Written
                 Language**

  Grant Award:   **\$5,000.00**

  Description:   Conduct and record an oral interview with Floyd Lounsbury
                 relating his experiences with the 1939 Works Progress
                 Administration (WPA) Oneida Language and Folklore
                 Project. In 1939 Mr. Loundbury documented 15 Oneida
                 speakers through story telling in their native language.
                 The WPA project of 1939 is a contributing factor to the
                 Oneida still speaking their language today.
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  Tribe:         **Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians**

  Project Title: **Red Cliff Band Historic Places Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$49,400.00**

  Description:   Identify and locate places of historic and cultural
                 importance to the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior
                 Chippewas. This information will be integrated into a
                 Geographic Information System (GIS) to be used in
                 planning development and protecting important cultural
                 resources. Tribal members will be trained in site
                 identification, historic research and GIS.
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