WASHINGTON — Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced $8.4 million in grants to 131 American Indian tribes to support Tribal Historic Preservation Offices under the National Historic Preservation Act.
The National Park Service awards grants to these tribes to assist in carrying out national historic preservation program responsibilities on tribal lands.
“The participation of American Indians in the national historic preservation program is a major step forward in how we tell the story of our land and its people,” Secretary Salazar said. “These grants will help tribes recount their histories that date back centuries before Europeans set foot on this continent. As they tell the story, all Americans can gain a greater appreciation of their rich traditions and cultures.”
Tribes can use the grants to fund projects such as nominations to the National Register of Historic Places, preservation education, architectural planning, historic structure reports, community preservation plans, and bricks-and-mortar repair to buildings. The grants are derived from revenues from federal oil leases on the Outer Continental Shelf and can help catalyze private and non-federal investment in historic preservation efforts nationwide.
“Increased attention to the preservation of significant tribal places, as well as tribal culture and tradition, is important to all Americans,” said National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis. “This grant program provides important funding to protect the cultures of the first Americans.”
For more information about the National Park Service tribal preservation programs and grants, please visit: https://www.nps.gov/history/hps/tribal/
Amounts made available are listed below.
FISCAL HEAR 2012
HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND APPORTIONMENT TO INDIAN TRIBES
Under Public Law 112-74
| TRIBE | AWARD | TRIBE | AWARD | TRIBE | AWARD |
| Absentee-Shawnee | $56,089 | Karuk Tribe | $56,331 | Salish/Kootenai | $79,873 |
| Agua Caliente Band | $59,248 | Keweenaw Bay | $64,565 | San Carlos Apache | $66,185 |
| Bad River Band – Chippewa | $67,424 | Lac Courte Oreilles | $65,753 | Santee Sioux | $67,195 |
| Bay Mills Indian Community | $58,156 | Lac du Flambeau | $66,367 | Seminole Tribe of Florida | $61,290 |
| Bear River Band | $54,233 | Lac Vieux Desert Band | $55,353 | Seneca | $64,555 |
| Big Pine Paiute | $55,290 | Leech Lake | $75,590 | Seneca Cayuga | $56,959 |
| Bishop Paiute Tribe | $56,406 | Lower Sioux | $57,255 | Sherwood Valley | $55,525 |
| Blackfeet | $80,922 | Lummi | $61,851 | Shingle Springs Rancheria | $54,853 |
| Blue Lake Rancheria | $53,865 | Makah | $62,587 | Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate | $61,685 |
| Bois Forte Chippewa | $67,559 | Mashantucket Pequot | $57,169 | Skokomish | $58,857 |
| Buena Vista Rancheria | $54,287 | Menominee | $70,089 | Smith River Rancheria | $54,018 |
| Caddo | $53,993 | Mescalero Apache | $73,417 | Spokane | $68,344 |
| Catawba | $56,570 | Miami Tribe of Oklahoma | $54,704 | Squaxin Island | $57,422 |
| Cheyenne-Arapaho | $60,212 | Mille Lacs | $66,812 | St. Regis Mohawk | $61,290 |
| Cheyenne River | $85,738 | Mohegan Tribe of Conn. | $55,834 | Standing Rock Sioux | $84,176 |
| Chippewa Cree | $67,277 | Muscogee Creek Nation | $59,444 | Stewart’s Point Rancheria | $54,015 |
| Chitimacha Tribe of LA | $55,708 | Narragansett | $57,419 | Stockbridge-Munsee Band | $61,235 |
| Choctaw | $61,203 | Native Village of Kake | $53,514 | Susanville Rancheria | $56,665 |
| Citizen Potawatomi Nation | $56,653 | Navajo | $105,076 | Suquamish Tribe | $59,594 |
| Coeur d’Alene | $72,564 | Nez Perce | $63,809 | Swinomish Tribe | $60,262 |
| Colville | $80,305 | Nooksack | $55,317 | Table Bluff — Wiyot | $54,584 |
| Comanche | $55,920 | Northern Arapaho | $81,758 | Three Affiliated Tribes | $78,100 |
| Coos, L. Umpqua & Siuslaw | $54,704 | Northern Cheyenne | $73,292 | Timbisha Shoshone | $59,662 |
| Coquille Indian Tribe | $59,319 | Oglala Sioux | $83,048 | Tohono O’odham | $85,825 |
| Crow Creek Sioux | $71,166 | Omaha | $69,338 | Trinidad Rancheria | $54,409 |
| Crow Tribe of Indians | $84,003 | Oneida | $59,638 | Tunica-Biloxi | $56,201 |
| Dry Creek Rancheria | $54,346 | Pala Band | $60,378 | Turtle Mountain | $65,672 |
| Eastern Cherokee | $64,644 | Passamaquoddy | $67,697 | Umatilla | $70,352 |
| Eastern Shoshone | $83,944 | Pawnee Nation | $57,096 | United Auburn Community | $56,807 |
| Elk Valley Rancheria | $55,608 | Penobscot | $65,770 | Upper Sioux Community | $57,001 |
| Flandreau Santee Sioux | $57,557 | Picayune Rancheria | $54,893 | Ute Mountain Ute | $75,107 |
| Fond du Lac Band Chippewa | $66,667 | Pinoleville Pomo Nation | $54,527 | Wampanoag | $55,608 |
| Forest County Potawatomi | $60,577 | Pit River Tribe | $60,850 | Warm Springs | $75,440 |
| Fort Belknap | $75,385 | Poarch Band of Creeks | $55,135 | Washoe Tribe | $58,575 |
| Fort Peck Tribes | $83,308 | Pokagon Band | $56,126 | White Earth Chippewa | $76,880 |
| Gila River Indian Community | $72,296 | Ponca | $54,848 | White Mountain | $81,562 |
| Grand Portage Chippewa | $64,147 | Port Gamble S’Klallam | $56,926 | Winnebago | $67,049 |
| Grand Ronde Community | $60,305 | Pueblo of Pojoaque | $60,556 | Wyandotte | $55,448 |
| Ho-Chunk Nation | $57,620 | Pueblo of Santa Ana | $65,753 | Yakama Nation | $80,274 |
| Hopland Band of Pomo | $57,484 | Pueblo of Tesuque | $61,314 | Yankton Sioux | $64,640 |
| Hualapai | $77,975 | Quapawa of Oklahoma | $56,852 | Yocha Dehe Wintun | $55,225 |
| Iowa Tribe of KS & NE | $60,562 | Red Cliff Chippewa | $60,980 | Yurok | $64,668 |
| Jena Band of Choctaw | $54,252 | Reno Sparks | $57,477 | Zuni | $73,448 |
| Jicarilla Apache | $77,191 | Rosebud Sioux |
$73,673 |
Source: Department of the Interior
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