Get Grants for Native American Repatriation Projects
Posted: January 3, 2025
Summary
This grant from the National Park Service helps museums, Indian Tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations cover costs for the repatriation of Native American human remains and cultural items. Funds can be used for essential services like packaging, transportation, decontamination, and reburial.
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Full Description
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to museums, Indian Tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations for the purposes of assisting in consultation, documentation, and repatriation of Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony (25 U.S.C. 3008). NAGPRA Repatriation grants assist museums, Indian Tribes, and NHOs to defray costs associated with the packaging, transportation, contamination removal, reburial, and/or storage of NAGPRA human remains or cultural items. Project activities may include, but are not limited to:Travel,Transportation,Testing or decontamination,Building containers for transport,Ceremonial materials, orStaff time.See Program Overview for more details on project activities.