The National Park Service's (NPS) National NAGPRA Program invites proposals for FY2006 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) grants. NAGPRA is a Federal law passed in 1990 that provides a process for museums and Federal agencies to return certain Native American cultural items -- human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony -- to lineal descendants, culturally affiliated Indian tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations.
The National NAGPRA Program administers grants that can assist Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages and corporations, Native Hawaiian organizations, and museums in carrying out projects associated with NAGPRA compliance. Two types of grants are available.
Consultation/Documentation grants may fund activities such as:
Travel to museums to view collections and consult on NAGPRA items
Training for tribal representatives in the fundamentals of NAGPRA
Inter-tribal collaboration to determine policies for treatment and disposition of NAGPRA items Amounts Available: $5,000-$75,000.
Repatriation grants may include expenses such as:
Transportation costs associated with transferring possession and control of NAGPRA items from a museum or agency to a tribe
Costs associated with reburial of Native American human remains and cultural items Amounts Available: Any amount up to $15,000.
Eligibility: Federally recognized Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages and corporations, Native Hawaiian organizations, and museums may apply. "Museums" may include state or local government agencies, private institutions, and institutions of higher learning that have received federal funds.
Deadlines: Consultation/Documentation grants are due on March 1, 2006. Repatriation grants are accepted year-round, from October 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006.
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CULTURALLY UNIDENTIFIABLE INVENTORIES DATABASE Completed and Available Online
FISCAL YEAR 2006 NAGPRA GRANTS Guidelines and Proposal Forms Now Available
NOTE FROM THE NPS: The Culturally Unidentifiable Native American Inventories Database provides information about Native American human remains that have been determined to be culturally unidentifiable. As of September 30, 2005, the database is essentially complete. See: http://64.241.25.6/CUI/index.cfm. It includes 16,123 records describing 118,259 Native American human remains and 830,130 associated funerary objects inventoried by 601 museums and Federal agencies. The NPS will make corrections, updates, and additions to the database as museums and Federal agencies submit revised inventories.
Fiscal Year 2006 NAGPRA grant guidelines and proposal forms are available at http://www.cr.nps.gov/nagpra/GRANTS, or by contacting the National NAGPRA program by telephone, (202) 354-2203, or mail, National Park Service, National NAGPRA, 1849 C Street NW (2253), Washington, DC 20240. Fiscal Year 2006 NAGPRA consultation/ documentation grant proposals must be postmarked by March 1, 2006. We encourage proposals for consultations on culturally unidentifiable Native American human remains and associated funerary objects. Funding is available subject to congressional appropriation.
Contact: To find out what other kinds of activities we fund, download grants guidelines, and review the application form, visit http://www.cr.nps.gov/nagpra/grants. For more information, call Michelle Joan Wilkinson at (202) 354-2203, email NAGPRA_Grants@nps.gov