Salazar Announces $4.4 Million in Grants for Historic Preservation by American Indian Tribes

WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced $4.4 million in grants from the Historic Preservation Fund to 117 American Indian tribes to assist with the preservation of important historic and cultural sites and to promote education and interpretation programs.

"As part of our commitment to empowering Indian nations to achieve the future of their choosing, we want to support the agendas of tribes to preserve, interpret, and enrich their heritage," Secretary Salazar said. "These investments will help not only help protect cultural and historic sites, but also provide tools to spur new economic opportunities in tribal communities."

The grants are derived from revenues from federal oil leases on the Outer Continental Shelf and are used by the National Park Service to make historic preservation grants to Tribal Historic Preservation Officers.

"Assisting tribal historic preservation efforts is one of several ways that we help American Indians recover and safeguard their cultural heritage," said National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis. "We are honored to collaborate with tribes on this important front."

Tribes use the grants to fund projects such as nominations to the NPS's National Register of Historic Places, preservation education, architectural planning, historic structure reports, community preservation plans, and bricks-and-mortar repair to buildings. HPF grants are also made to State Historic Preservation Offices.

Grants and programs funded by the HPF encourage private and non-federal investment in historic preservation efforts nationwide. Recent HPF achievements can be found in its annual report at http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/hpg/downloads/2010_HPF_Report.pdf.

For more information about NPS tribal preservation programs and grants, please visit http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/tribal/.

Fiscal Year 2011 Historic Preservation Fund Grants to Indian Tribes

Absentee-Shawnee

$31,060

Agua Caliente Band

$32,696

Bad River Band - Chippewa

$36,931

Bay Mills Indian Community

$32,130

Bear River Band

$30,100

Big Pine Paiute

$30,647

Bishop Paiute Tribe

$31,225

Blackfeet

$43,921

Blue Lake Rancheria

$29,909

Bois Forte Chippewa

$37,001

Buena Vista Rancheria

$30,128

Caddo

$29,975

Catawba

$31,310

Cheyenne-Arapaho

$33,195

Cheyenne River

$46,416

Chippewa Cree

$36,855

Choctaw

$33,709

Citizen Potawatomi Nation

$31,353

Coeur d'Alene

$39,592

Colville

$43,602

Comanche

$30,973

Coos, L. Umpqua & Siuslaw

$30,343

Coquille Indian Tribe

$59,311

Crow Creek Sioux

$70,714

Crow Tribe of Indians

$45,517

Dry Creek Rancheria

$30,158

Eastern Cherokee

$35,492

Elk Valley Rancheria

$30,811

Flandreau Santee Sioux

$57,615

Fond du Lac Band Chippewa

$36,538

Fort Peck Tribes

$82,402

Gila River Indian Community

$39,454

Grand Portage Band of Chippewa

$35,234

Grand Ronde Community

$60,259

Ho-Chunk Nation

$31,854

Hopland Band of Pomo

$31,783

Hualapai

$42,395

Jena Band of Choctaw

$30,109

Jicarilla Apache

$41,990

Karuk Tribe

$31,186

Keweenaw Bay

$35,451

Lac Courte Oreilles

$36,065

Lac du Flambeau

$36,384

Lac Vieux Desert Band

$30,680

Leech Lake

$41,160

Lower Sioux

$31,664

Lummi

$34,045

Makah

$34,426

Mashantucket Pequot

$31,620

Menominee

$38,311

Mescalero Apache

$40,035

Miami Tribe of Oklahoma

$30,343

Mille Lacs

$36,614

Muscogee Creek Nation

$59,431

Narragansett

$31,749

Navajo

$56,430

Nez Perce

$35,058

Nooksak

$30,661

Northern Arapaho

$44,355

Northern Cheyenne

$39,970

Oglala Sioux

$45,022

Oneida

$32,899

Pala Band

$33,280

Passamaquoddy

$37,072

Pawnee Nation

$31,582

Penobscot

$36,074

Pinoleville Pomo Nation

$30,252

Pit River Tribe

$33,525

Poarch Band of Creeks

$30,566

Pokagon Band

$31,079

Ponca

$30,417

Pueblo of Pojoaque

$33,372

Pueblo of Santa Ana

$65,503

Pueblo of Tesuque

$33,767

Quapaw of Oklahoma

$31,455

Red Cliff Chippewa

$33,593

Reno Sparks Indian Colony

$57,538

Rosebud Sioux

$40,167

Salish/Kootenai

$43,378

San Carlos Apache

$36,289

Santee Sioux

$36,813

Seminole Tribe of

Florida

$33,754

Seneca

$35,446

Sherwood Valley

$30,768

Shingle Springs

Rancheria

$55,012

Sisseton-Wahpeton

Oyate

$33,959

Skokomish

$32,494

Smith River Rancheria

$29,988

Spokane

$37,408

Squaxin Island

$31,751

St. Regis Mohawk

$33,754

Standing Rock Sioux

$45,606

Stewart's Point Rancheria

$29,987

Stockbridge-Munsee Band

$33,726

Susanville Rancheria

$31,358

Suquamish Tribe

$32,876

Swinomish Tribe

$33,220

Table Bluff - Wiyot

$30,281

Three Affiliated Tribes

$42,460

Timbisha Shoshone

$16,533

Tohono O'odham

$46,461

Trinidad Rancheria

$30,190

Tunica-Biloxi

$31,119

Turtle Mountain

$36,024

Umatilla

$38,448

Ute Mountain Ute

$40,909

Wampanoag

$30,811

Warm Springs

$41,083

Washoe Tribe

$32,347

White Earth Chippewa

$41,828

White Mountain

$44,253

Wyandotte

$30,728

Yakama Nation

$43,586

Yankton Sioux

$35,490

Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation

$55,370

Yurok

$35,504

Zuni

$40,050

Total

$4,388,570