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

**Fiscal Year 2004 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 2004 continue to reflect this broad range of funding needs.

Since 1990, approximately \$15.5 million has been awarded to **431**
Indian and Alaska Native communities. In Fiscal Year 2004, a total of
\$531,944 is being awarded to 15 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
2003 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, 101 proposals were received requesting approximately \$3.9 million.

Panels of experts who met in Washington, D.C. April 27, 2004, 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

**Paula Creech**

National Park Service

### Laura Dean

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

**Anne Grimmer**

National Park Service

**Valerie Thomas**

Bureau of Indian Affairs

### Tom McCulloch

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

### Ron Anzalone

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

**Donald Sutherland**

Bureau of Indian Affairs

**James Bird**

National Park Service

### Fred York

National Park Service

**[Fiscal Year 2004 Historic Preservation Fund Grants to]{.underline}**

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

+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| ### Tribe \[State\]                                    | **Amount**  |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
|                                                        |             |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Bridgeport Indian Community (CA)                       | \$ 37,875   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Chitimacha Tribe (LA)                                  | \$ 37,892   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Coeur d'Alene Tribe (ID)                               | \$ 34,418   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation (AZ)                      | \$ 37,892   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Hula Preservation Society (HI)                         | \$ 37,882   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Ka Molokai Makahiki, Inc. (HI)                         | \$ 37,544   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Indians (WI)               | \$ 37,892   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Northern Arapaho Tribe (WY)                            | \$ 19,797   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Penobscot Indian Nation (ME)                           | \$ 37,870   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Pueblo of Isleta (NM)                                  | \$ 37,892   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Samish Indian Nation (WA)                              | \$ 35,000   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe (WA)                        | \$ 32,500   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Table Bluff Reservation (CA)                           | \$ 56,840   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Table Mountain Rancheria (CA)                          | \$ 16,000   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Yurok Tribe (CA)                                       | \$ 34,650   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| **TOTAL**                                              | **          |
|                                                        | \$531,944** |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+

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##### FY 2004 Project Descriptions

#### Historic Preservation Fund Grants

### Arizona

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  Tribe:         **Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation**

  Project Title: **Kewevkapaya Cultural Site Survey**

  Grant Award:   **\$37,892.00**

  Description:   Assemble inventories of traditional cultural properties
                 of archaeological and historical sites important to the
                 Fort McDowell Yavapai people. The resulting GIS
                 information, databases, audio tapes and archival records
                 will provide a framework for preservation planning at a
                 time when the tribe is confronting intensive development
                 on and around its reservation.
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### California

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  Tribe:         **Bridgeport Indian Community**

  Project Title: **Remembering Who We Are: Building a Paiute Traditional
                 Plant Trail**

  Grant Award:   **\$37,875**

  Description:   Preserve and share cultural plant knowledge by creating a
                 Traditional Plant Trail on Tribal land. Document
                 traditional uses of native plants by interviewing
                 knowledgeable Elders. Prepare a poster for distribution
                 to tribal members explaining traditional plant uses.
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### 

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  Tribe:         **Table Bluff Reservation**

  Project Title: **Tuluwat Village Midden Protection Project, Indian
                 Island, Eureka**

  Grant Award:   **\$56,840.00**

  Description:   Protect the Tuluwat Village midden, a National Historic
                 Landmark, from erosion caused by boat wakes, windwaves,
                 tides and currents. Install 500 feet of fiberglass sheet
                 piling as a footing for a bio-engineering control
                 revetment utilizing native soils and plants to further
                 stabilize and conceal the new structure.
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### 

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  Tribe:         **Table Mountain Rancheria**

  Project Title: **Making Memories Count: Perserving Past Oral History for
                 the Future**

  Grant Award:   **\$16,000.00**

  Description:   Continue archival efforts documenting the oral history
                 and cultural traditions of the Gashowu, Chuckchansi an
                 Choinumni Yokuts of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Prepare
                 new multi-media recordings of at least three Elders and
                 edit previously recorded materials.
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  Tribe:         **Yurok Tribe**

  Project Title: **Yurok Coastal Resources, Sites, and Traditional Uses
                 Oral History Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$34,650.00**

  Description:   Conduct an oral history project on the traditional Yurok
                 resource use along the Pacific coast that provided
                 abundant marine and coastal resources to supplement the
                 riverine resources of the Klamath River. Acquire valuable
                 information regarding traditional uses of coastal and
                 marine resources during 40 interviews and site visits,
                 and make that information searchable and useable by
                 creating a geo-referenced index.
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### Hawaii

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  Tribe:         **Hula Preservation Society**

  Project Title: **The Preservation of Hawai'i's Native Storytelling**

  Grant Award:   **\$37,882.00**

  Description:   Preserve and share traditional knowledge surrounding
                 hula, the unique form of storytelling, through oral
                 histories with selected hula elders and community
                 presentations featuring Hula Masters sharing traditions
                 taught to them by their elders. Document the sessions
                 using videotape and photographs, create a multi-media
                 database for each elder and identify specific segments to
                 be included in resources shared online via HPS's website
                 and the Online Hula Library.
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  Tribe:         **Ka Molokai Makahiki, Inc.**

  Project Title: **Survey of Traditional Cultural Properties at the Na'iwa
                 Makahiki Grounds**

  Grant Award:   **\$37,544**

  Description:   Identify all traditional cultural properties located at
                 the Na'iwa Makahiki Grounds, the site of a festival that
                 included athletic events, religious ceremonies to Lono,
                 and a prohibition of war. A reconnaissance survey of 60
                 acres will be conducted to locate and inventory sites,
                 record locations using GPS, assess the condition of the
                 sites and formulate treatment recommendations for
                 preservation and management planning purposes.
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### Idaho

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  Tribe:         **Coeur d'Alene Tribe**

  Project Title: **Coeur d'Alene Tribe's Name-Places Geographic
                 Information Systems Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$34,418.00**

  Description:   Map culturally significant sites based upon a data set
                 created by Dr. Roderick Sprague in the early 1990s and
                 add new information to the tribal GIS system. Record
                 audio, video and still photos of tribal Elders describing
                 the importance of the sites in both English and Coeur
                 d'Alene languages.
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## Louisiana

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  Tribe:         **Chitimacha Tribe**

  Project Title: **Historic Preservation Training for the Chitimacha and
                 Other NAHI Tribes**

  Grant Award:   **\$37,892.00**

  Description:   Provide training onsite to Chitimacha employees and other
                 Native American Historic Initiative (NAHI) member tribes
                 on preservation law, Section 106 of the National Historic
                 Preservation Act, Native Graves Protection and
                 Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and the Archaeological
                 Resources Preservation Act (ARPA).
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### Maine

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  Tribe:         **Penobscot Indian Nation**

  Project Title: **Testing Joseph Treat: A Survey of Documented 19^th^
                 Century Penobscot Encampments**

  Grant Award:   **\$37,870.00**

  Description:   Conduct archaeological surveys of islands where native
                 settlements were documented by Joseph Treat in 1820 and
                 are now reservation lands of the Penobscot Indian Nation.
                 Identify Penobscot encampments, assess the accuracy of
                 Treat's documentation, re-evaluate archaeological
                 sensitivity levels of those islands, develop a management
                 plan for identified sites, and educate tribal members
                 about early 19^th^ century life among the Penobscots.
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### New Mexico

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  Tribe:         **Pueblo of Isleta**

  Project Title: **St. Augustine Restoration Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$37,892.00**

  Description:   Assess the condition of the St. Augustine Church which
                 was established in approximately 1613, and evaluate
                 weaknesses in the overall structure, roof leaks, erosion,
                 and the lack of a solid foundation. Develop plans and
                 specifications for repairing and preserving the church
                 providing a work plan for the restoration and
                 preservation of this structure.
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### 

### Washington

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  Tribe:         **Samish Indian Nation**

  Project Title: **Samish Cultural Traditions: Documenting and Preserving
                 the Audio-Visual Collections**

  Grant Award:   **\$35,000.00**

  Description:   Hire and train a Records Technician to assist in the
                 creation of an index and catalog of an extensive
                 collection of audio-visual materials of historic and
                 cultural significance. The materials will be duplicated
                 to assure preservation of this valuable information.
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  Tribe:         **Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe**

  Project Title: **Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe Archaeological Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$32,500**

  Description:   Identify, record and protect cultural resources within
                 the Sauk, Suiattle, and Stillaguamish River basins. Data
                 from recorded sites will be used to develop cultural
                 resource management plans within the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie
                 National Forest, the North Cascades National Park and
                 Skagit and Snohomish Counties as well as monitor forest
                 practices on lands controlled by the Washington State
                 Department of Natural Resources and private timber lands.
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### Wisconsin

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  Tribe:         **Lac Courtes Oreilles Band of Ojibwe Indians**

  Project Title: **Gathering Stories from Lac Courtes Oreilles Tribal
                 Elders and Community Members**

  Grant Award:   **\$37,892.00**

  Description:   Create a series of audio recordings featuring oral
                 histories of Elders and community members which will
                 include biographical information and historical and
                 cultural topics associated with the four seasons.
                 Recordings will be selected for use by the Lac Courte
                 Oreilles Ojibwe Community College Native American Studies
                 Department and for broadcast on the tribal public
                 broadcasting station.
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### Wyoming

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  Tribe:         **Northern Arapaho Tribe**

  Project Title: **Northern Arapaho Knowledge of the Natural World of
                 Colorado**

  Grant Award:   **\$19,797.00 (plus \$2,703 from FY 2003 funds)**

  Description:   Produce a series of at least five educational CD-ROMS
                 documenting the Northern Arapaho traditional culture in
                 Colorado and to contribute cultural information to a
                 public education website. Provide training for the
                 Arapaho young people in digital and multi-media skills
                 and document place-names, plants, animals, stories and
                 history unique to the Colorado area during a visit by
                 Elders and youth to the Rocky Mountain National Park
                 vicinity.
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  Hualapai Nation (AZ)                                     \$ 56,840

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  Organized Village of Kake (AK)                           \$ 17,500

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  Pueblo of Jemez (NM)                                     \$ 32,500

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  Pueblo of Zuni (NM)                                      \$ 25,260

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  Northern Arapaho Tribe (WY)                              \$ 2,703

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### Alaska

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  Tribe:         **Organized Village of Kake**

  Project Title: **Kake Cannery Emergency Repairs**

  Grant Award:   **\$17,500.00**

  Description:   Make emergency repairs to the roof, structural elements
                 of the walls, decking and X bracing of the Kake Cannery
                 Complex which consists of four main warehouses and other
                 support buildings.
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  Tribe:         **Hualapai Nation**

  Project Title: **Assess and Stabilize Truxton Canon Indian Boarding
                 School Building**

  Grant Award:   **\$56,840.00**

  Description:   Execute Phase II of the long-term, multi-phase plan to
                 rehabilitate the Truxton Canon Indian Boarding School.
                 Prepare a building structures report and repair and
                 reinforce the first floor, second floor and roof
                 structure.
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  Tribe:         **Pueblo of Jemez**

  Project Title: **Protecting and Preserving Sacred Jemez Places: The
                 Jemez Documentation Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$32,500.00**

  Description:   Document Jemez traditional cultural properties (TCPs) on
                 federal lands in New Mexico and southwestern Colorado.
                 Jemez will hire a TCP Project Manager, conduct interviews
                 with Elders regarding the locations and nature of Jemez
                 TCPs, conduct in-field reconnaissance surveys documenting
                 the condition of sites, and collate information in a GIS
                 database which will be used to make informed decisions to
                 ensure preservation of Jemez TCPs.

  Tribe:         **Pueblo of Zuni**

  Project Title: **Village of the Great Kivas Preservation Project**

  Grant Award:   **\$25,260.00**

  Description:   Document and evaluate the extent of damage that has
                 occurred to the Village of the Great Kivas and implement
                 reparable measures, and implement a preservation strategy
                 that will eliminate impacts to the site and maintain
                 long-term security and protection of the site.
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### Wyoming

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  Tribe:         **Northern Arapaho Tribe**

  Project Title: **Northern Arapaho Knowledge of the Natural World of
                 Colorado**

  Grant Award:   **\$2,703.00 (plus \$19,797 from FY 2004 funds)**

  Description:   Produce a series of at least five educational CD-ROMS
                 documenting the Northern Arapaho traditional culture in
                 Colorado and to contribute cultural information to a
                 public education website. Provide training for the
                 Arapaho young people in digital and multi-media skills
                 and document place-names, plants, animals, stories and
                 history unique to the Colorado area during a visit by
                 Elders and youth to the Rocky Mountain National Park
                 vicinity.
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