######### A Report on

**Fiscal Year 2005 Historic Preservation Fund Grants to Indian Tribes,
Alaskan Natives and Native Hawaiian Organizations**

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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 fourteenth 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 2005 continue to reflect this broad range of funding needs.

Since 1990, approximately \$17.1 million has been awarded to **463**
Indian and Alaska Native communities. In Fiscal Year 2005, a total of
\$753,208 is being awarded to 23 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, Alaskan 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 five major categories of eligible
activities for Historic Preservation Fund grants: locating and
identifying cultural resources, preserving a historic property listed on
the National Register, preservation planning, oral history and
documenting cultural traditions, and education and training projects in
historic and cultural preservation.

Grant applications and application guidelines were mailed in December
2004 to the chief elected officials of all Federally recognized Indian
tribes, Alaskan Native groups, Native Hawaiian organizations, and to
others on a mailing list of over 1,400 individuals and organizations. In
all, 102 proposals were received requesting approximately \$3.785
million.

Panels of experts who met in Washington, D.C. April 19, 2005, evaluated
each application. Panel members are listed below.

######## GRANT APPLICATION REVIEW CONSIDERATIONS

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 qualified people carry out the project?

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 2004 GRANTS SELECTION PANEL PARTICIPANTS

**Virginia Busby**

Department of the Army

**Paula Creech**

National Park Service

### Laura Dean

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

**Dorothy Firecloud**

Forest Service

**Anne Grimmer**

National Park Service

**Sherry Hutt**

National Park Service

### Tom McCulloch

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

### 

### Midori Raymore

National Park Service

**Amy Van Allen**

Smithsonian Institution

# Richard Waldbauer

National Park Service

### Fred York

National Park Service

**[Fiscal Year 2005 Historic Preservation Fund Grants to]{.underline}**

**[Indian Tribes, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians]{.underline}**

+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| ### Tribe \[State\]                                    | **Amount**  |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
|                                                        |             |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Blackfeet Tribe (MT)                                   | \$ 39,970   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Calista Elders Council (AK)                            | \$ 39,160   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Chitimacha Tribe (LA)                                  | \$ 40,000   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Citizen Potawatomi Nation (OK)                         | \$ 18,440   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Comanche Nation (OK)                                   | \$ 20,663   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians     | \$ 13,165   |
| (MI)                                                   |             |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Hualapai Tribal Council (AZ)                           | \$ 39,491   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Huslia Tribal Council (AK)                             | \$ 19,735   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Kawerak, Inc. (AK)                                     | \$ 39,936   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Kenaitze Indian Tribe (AK)                             | \$ 23,526   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Kialegee Tribal Town (OK)                              | \$ 31,188   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (WI)    | \$ 22,057   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Little River Band of Ottawa Indians (MI)               | \$ 40,000   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Mashantucket Pequot (CT)                               | \$ 39,558   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Peoria Tribe of Indians (OK)                           | \$ 25,000   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Ponca Tribe (NE)                                       | \$ 20,013   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Port Gambell S'Kallam Tribe (WA)                       | \$ 36,159   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Pueblo of Zia (NM)                                     | \$ 38,557   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Santa Clara Pueblo (NM)                                | \$ 38,713   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Sealaska Corporation (AK)                              | \$ 38,962   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Sitka Tribe (AK)                                       | \$ 39,666   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Sokaogon Chippewa Community (WI)                       | \$ 60,000   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Squaxin Island Tribe (WA)                              | \$ 29,249   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| **TOTAL**                                              | **          |
|                                                        | \$753,208** |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
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##### 

##### FY 2005 Project Descriptions

#### Historic Preservation Fund Grants

### Alaska

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  Tribe:         **Calista Elders Council**

  Project Title: **Calista Yup\'ik Elders Cultural and Oral History Topic
                 Specific Gatherings**

  Grant Award:   **\$39,160.00**

  Description:   The Calista Elder's Council will host four topic specific
                 gatherings in order to interview the Yup'ik Elders and
                 involve Yup'ik young people allowing the sharing of
                 traditional and cultural Yup'ik knowledge, wisdom,
                 lifeways and values.
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  Tribe:         **Huslia Tribal Council**

  Project Title: **Survey of Koyukon Traditional Knowledge in Huslia,
                 Alaska**

  Grant Award:   **\$19,735.00**

  Description:   The primary purpose of this project is to document those
                 traditional skills and knowledge through a comprehensive
                 survey of Huslia residents. In addition, the survey will
                 allow the Tribal Council to prioritize a long-term
                 cultural preservation research program.
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  Tribe:         **Kawerak, Inc.**

  Project Title: **Bering Strait Cultural Heritage Preservation Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$39,936.00**

  Description:   Funds will support the documentation of the elders'
                 knowledge of local plants and animals, weather
                 conditions, traditional tools, traditional sewing,
                 traditional food preparation skills, historical customs,
                 rituals, spiritual belief, songs, stories, and hunting
                 and subsistence practices.
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  Tribe:         **Kenaitze Indian Tribe**

  Project Title: **Kalifornsky Village Cultural Resource Management Plan**

  Grant Award:   **\$23,526.00**

  Description:   Funds for this project will support the research and
                 planning for the physical preservation of Kalifornsky
                 Village, a preeminent cultural and spiritual center of
                 the Kenaitze Indian Tribe, Dena'ina Athabascans of the
                 Kenai Peninsula in south central Alaska.
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  Tribe:         **Sealaska Corporation**

  Project Title: **Songs of the Past: A Key to Understanding History**

  Grant Award:   **\$38,962.00**

  Description:   This project will document 16 Tlingit clan songs
                 pertaining to origin and migration stories, along with
                 any associated oral history and dance movements through
                 interview with clan members and elders.
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  Tribe:         **Sitka Tribe**

  Project Title: **Sheet\'ka Kwaan Aani Aya - A Traditional Cultural Sites
                 Documentation Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$39,666.00**

  Description:   Funds will allow the Sitka Tribe of Alaska to inventory
                 traditional cultural places within their traditional
                 territory.
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### Arizona

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  Tribe:         **Hualapai Tribal Council**

  Project Title: **Hualapai Cultural Atlas**

  Grant Award:   **\$39,491.00**

  Description:   This project proposes to identify and compile places of
                 traditional cultural significance to the Hualapai Tribe
                 and create a GIS database with accompanying historical
                 information.
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### Connecticut

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  Tribe:         **Mashantucket Pequot -- Museum and Research Center**

  Project Title: **Identifying Archaeological Resources at Mashantucket:
                 Field Surveys and Science Learning**

  Grant Award:   **\$39,558.00**

  Description:   This grant will fund the archaeological survey of a 300
                 acre parcel within the National Historic Landmark
                 Mashantucket Pequot Indian Reservation Archaeological
                 District, located on the southwest side of Cedar Swamp,
                 to the north of the historic 18^th^ century Pequot
                 settlement known as Indiantown.
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### Louisiana

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  Tribe:         **Chitimacha Tribe**

  Project Title: **Archaeological Survey of Caqaad Kaskec Namu and Other
                 Chitimacha Sites**

  Grant Award:   **\$40,000.00**

  Description:   The primary objective of this project is the
                 identification of historic properties, which include
                 archaeological sites and traditional cultural sites on
                 Chitimacha tribal lands, which encompass the village
                 named Caqaad Kaskec Namu.
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### Michigan

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  Tribe:         **Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians**

  Project Title: **Grand Traverse Band Historic Preservation Training
                 Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$13,165.00**

  Description:   The purpose of this project is to provide training to the
                 Tribe's Historic Preservation Committee in order to build
                 their capacity to preserve and share the Tribe's
                 invaluable history.
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  Tribe:         **Little River Band of Ottawa Indians**

  Project Title: **Let\'s Spend a Day With Our Elders**

  Grant Award:   **\$40,000.00**

  Description:   Funds will support the production of DVDs and videos
                 showing Tribal Elders making Black Ash baskets and Quill
                 baskets and the preparation of traditional medicines.
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## 

## Montana

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  Tribe:         **Blackfeet Tribe**

  Project Title: **Bear River Massacre of 1870: Location and Protection**

  Grant Award:   **\$39,970.00**

  Description:   This project seeks to locate the actual site of the Bear
                 River Massacre of 1870, where on January 23, 1870,
                 Colonel Eugene Baker of the United States Army attacked a
                 sleeping Blackfeet encampment that was suffering from the
                 effects of smallpox. In addition, funds will be used to
                 nominate the site for listing on the National Register of
                 Historic Places.
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## 

## Nebraska

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  Tribe:         **Ponca Tribe**

  Project Title: **Comprehensive Cemetery Mapping Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$20,013.00**

  Description:   Funds will be used to map all marked and unmarked
                 gravesites in the National Register listed historic Ponca
                 cemetery.
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### 

### New Mexico

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  Tribe:         **Pueblo of Zia**

  Project Title: **Collecting, Documenting and Archiving Zia Oral History
                 and Cultural Traditions**

  Grant Award:   **\$38,557.00**

  Description:   The goal of this project is to collect, archive and
                 preserve oral history materials, such as tribal folk
                 stories, personal histories, and descriptions of tribal
                 traditions, in order to enhance Zia's cultural
                 preservation program.
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  Tribe:         **Santa Clara Pueblo**

  Project Title: **Preservation Planning for Puye Village and Cliff
                 Dwellings**

  Grant Award:   **\$38,713.00**

  Description:   Puye Village and cliff dwellings, a National Historic
                 Landmark, is at great risk, threatened by structural
                 collapse, masonry deterioration, and landscape erosion
                 resulting from the Cerro Grande fire of May 2000. Funds
                 will support the development of a preservation plan for
                 this important site.
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## 

## Oklahoma

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  Tribe:         **Citizen Potawatomi Nation**

  Project Title: **Citizen Potawatomi Tribal Heritage Project: "Sharing
                 Our Voice"**

  Grant Award:   **\$18,440.00**

  Description:   Funds will support the indexing and cataloguing the
                 Citizen Potawatomi Nation's oral history collection
                 developed by their Tribal Heritage Project and assist in
                 the continuing archival efforts to preserve their oral
                 history and heritage.
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  Tribe:         **Comanche Nation**

  Project Title: **Comanche Nation Cultural Preservation Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$20,663.00**

  Description:   This oral history project is designed to gather cultural
                 and historic information from Comanche tradition bearers
                 focusing upon traditional moopeets (monster), kawos
                 (changling), and eesa (coyote) stories.
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  Tribe:         **Kialegee Tribal Town**

  Project Title: **Kialegee Historic Farm Property Surveys**

  Grant Award:   **\$31,188.00**

  Description:   The primary goal of this project is to survey and
                 document three historic barns and other associated
                 features established by Kialegee citizens during the
                 1930s under an agricultural initiative of the Kialegee
                 government.
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  Tribe:         **Peoria Tribe of Indians**

  Project Title: **Project Planning for Preservation of the Peoria Indian
                 Schoolhouse**

  Grant Award:   **\$25,000.00**

  Description:   Funds will support the preparation of working drawings,
                 architectural plans and a detailed analysis of specific
                 and exact repair work needed to preserve the Peoria
                 Indian Schoolhouse.
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### Washington

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  Tribe:         **Port Gambell S'Klallam Tribe**

  Project Title: **S\'Klallam History and Cultural Traditions-Preserving
                 S\'Klallam Family History**

  Grant Award:   **\$36,159.00**

  Description:   This oral history project will build upon the Tribe's
                 current archival material and expand and further
                 substantiate the recorded knowledge of the Tribe's
                 history through interviews with the tribal elders.
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  Tribe:         **Squaxin Island Tribe**

  Project Title: **Squaxin/DNR Comprehensive Cultural Resources Survey**

  Grant Award:   **\$29,249.00**

  Description:   Through this grant the Squaxin Island Tribe, in
                 cooperation with the Washington State Department of
                 Natural Resources, plans to complete a comprehensive
                 archaeological and traditional cultural properties survey
                 to determine what cultural resources remain on the
                 landscape of the Skookum Inlet Natural Area Preserve,
                 Kennedy Creek Natural Area Preserve and Woodard Bay
                 Natural Resource Conservation Area.
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### Wisconsin

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  Tribe:         **Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa**

  Project Title: **"Ishkonigaadeg Waaswaaganing Anishinaabe Izichigewin" -
                 Our Indian Ways Are Preserved**

  Grant Award:   **\$22,057.00**

  Description:   The primary objective of this project is to convert the
                 Tribe's oral history collection, pre-recorded recordings
                 and duplicate existing audio and video into useable CD
                 and DVD format.
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  Tribe:         **Sokaogon Chippewa Community**

  Project Title: **Historic Renovation of the Dinesen House**

  Grant Award:   **\$60,000.00**

  Description:   Funds will pay for the much needed repair of the roof,
                 which has large holes letting in rain and snow into the
                 Dinesen House, a National Register property.
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