Preservation of the Barona Band's Audiovisual Collection

Recipient: Hinton, Cheryl (Lakeside, CA 92040 USA) in affiliation with Barona Band of Mission Indians

Goal: A preservation assessment of 767 original sound recordings and videotapes in the Barona Cultural Center and Museum that document the ongoing preservation of the 'Iipay language of the Barona Band of Mission Indians. The corpus includes 328 audio cassettes, 128 CDs, 37 DVDs, 21 mini-discs, and 227 VHS tapes and documents the history and traditional lifeways of this tribe. Minor rehousing supplies recommended by the proposed consultant will also be purchased.

Description: The goal of the project is to hire an archivist with expertise in audiovisual media to conduct a preservation assessment of the 767 original sound recordings and videotapes in the cultural media collection of the Barona Cultural Center & Museum.

Grant: 199675 / PG-50931-10,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation Assistance Grants,   Year Awarded: 2010

Improving the Rolled Storage of Native American Textiles

Recipient: McKune, Amy (Indianapolis, IN 462042707 USA) in affiliation with Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art (Indianapolis, IN 46204 USA)

Goal: Funding supports the purchase of storage furniture to rehouse oversized flat textiles, primarily Navajo blankets and other weavings. The collection is used in the museum's artist-in-residence program, in academic studies, and in exhibitions and educational programming.

Description: The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art has an important collection of Native American objects related to native cultures of North America. Within this collection is approximately 80 textiles, primarily Navajo weavings, including a classic third-phase Navajo chief's blanket and a child's wearing blanket, dated 1870-1875. This project continues the museum's ongoing efforts to upgrade individual storage of Native American textiles following the recommendations of a 2003 CAP survey performed by Laurie Booth of Midwest Conservation Services. Currently there is insufficient rolled textile storage, which is compromising the care of these important objects. NEH funds will support the purchase of a Montel rolled textile rack to re-house Native American oversized flat textiles.

Grant: 199689 / PG-50945-10,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation Assistance Grants,   Year Awarded: 2010

From Metacom to Tecumseh: Alliances, Conflicts, and Resistance in Native North America

Recipient: Stevens, Scott Manning (Chicago, IL 60610 USA) in affiliation with Newberry Library

Goal: A four-week college and university faculty member institute for twenty-five participants on the relationships between Native Americans and European colonists from 1675 to 1815.

Description: The Newberry Library's D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History seeks NEH support for a summer institute for college and university faculty that will examine the complex and shifting alliances between the various American Indian nations of North America and European colonists competing for land and political ascendancy in the regions east of the Mississippi between the years 1675 and 1815. The institute, led by the Newberry's Scott Stevens (Dir. of McNickle Center), will feature 4 guest lecturers in American Indian studies, American history, art history, and literature, as well as Newberry staff expert in cartography and American Indian materials in the Ayer Collection. The institute will comprise of lectures, discussions, museum visits, and opportunities for primary research in the library's rich humanities archive. The 25 participants will be drawn from across academic disciplines and institutions and encouraged to share their expertise and approaches to pedagogy.

Grant: 197427 / EH-50205-09,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2009

Legacies and Landmarks of the High Plains Native Americans

Recipient: Parmley, Dianna L (Columbus, NE 68602-1027 USA) in affiliation with Central Community College (Grand Island, NE 68802 USA)

Goal: Two one-week workshops for fifty community college faculty members on landmarks important to High Plains Native American tribes in Nebraska.

Description: Central Community College proposes two, one-week long workshops to immerse community college faculty in a scholarly study of High Plains Native American history and culture from the 18th century to modern times. Special emphasis will be placed on infusion of historical and cultural content of the Pawnee, Ponca, and Winnebago tribes. Attempts at assimilation of Native Americans into the main culture and resulting accommodation will be included, but the theme of hope of a people still among us today who are preserving a cultural identity, and lessons learned by all in the process will be highlighted in the workshops. Participants will use a variety of technological resources to integrate scholarly lectures, landmark visits, literature, film media, artwork, and music into individual curriculum projects. Small groups, round table discussions and question and answer sessions will provide participants with opportunities to interact with lecturers, cultural speakers and workshop faculty.

Grant: 197540 / BI-50093-09,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Landmarks of American History for Community Colleges, WTP,   Year Awarded: 2009

A Pictorial Atlas of our people and places.

Recipient: Taifane, Niualama E (Pago Pago, AS 96799 USA) in affiliation with Amerika Samoa Humanities Council

Goal: The creation of a pictorial atlas, both as a book and as an online resource, that documents American Samoa's 74 villages in terms of geography, basic statistics, and oral histories as told by the village elders.

Description: This project will highlight the way of life on the islands to denote the different trends that the Faa-Samoa (Samoan Way of Life) has encountered since we became a U.S. Territory. The Pictorial Atlas will be comprehensive enough to include a narrative description of the origin of each village, the historical sites-if any, and significant stories from the elders on any historical event that had a major impact on American Samoa's development as a government.

Grant: 199916 / BC-50512-09,   Division: Federal/State Partnership,   Program: Grants for State Humanities Councils,   Year Awarded: 2009

Preservation Assessment for the John Vaughan Library at Northeastern Oklahoma State University

Recipient: Messner, Tom (Tahlequah, OK 74464 USA) in affiliation with Northeastern Oklahoma State University

Goal: A general preservation assessment of the special collections and university archives, including photographs, video and audio media, and historical documents related to the Cherokee Female and Male Seminaries, the local community of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and the Cherokee Nation; and to support staff training in preservation.

Description: The John Vaughan Library at Northeastern Oklahoma State University is requesting a Preservation Assistance Grant to retain a consultant to survey, evaluate and report on the current and long term physical and environmental suitability of the facilities that currently house Humanities Collections within the Special Collections and University Archives departments. The findings of the preservation & conservation report will guide the NOSU Libraries strategic planning currently underway. The Library's strategic plan will address long term strategic issues which face the Library and its departments, and will direct facility & organizational planning for the next 5-10 years. Additionally, this grant will provide funding to cover expenses of the current University Archives and Special Collections staff to attend vital preservation & conservation training workshops through Amigos Library Services. This program will help ensure the long term preservation/conservation of NOSU's vital Humanities collections.

Grant: 193966 / PG-50602-09,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation Assistance Grants,   Year Awarded: 2009

The Indians of the Midwest

Recipient: Stevens, Scott Manning (Buffalo, NY 14260-4610 USA) in affiliation with Newberry Library (Chicago, IL 60610 USA)

Goal: Implementation of an interactive website on the cultures and history of the Indian tribes of the Midwest and on the changes and issues they have faced over time.

Description: The Indians of the Midwest website is designed as an interactive and content site that will share scholarly research on the history and cultures of American Indians in the Midwest with the general public. It will serve as a resource for members of diverse audiences seeking context for controversial issues involving American Indians, such as conflicts over gaming, the disposition of archaeological sites and objects, fishing rights, or sports mascots. This project is designed to contribute to public discussion on topics relating to Indians of the Midwest by making recent academic research more accessible to the general public, and by providing a vehicle for ongoing conversations between scholars and online communities of users via existing and developing social networking sites. The information on the site is organized around several broad themes that continue to resonate today, but whose roots in the complex history of the region and its people are often misunderstood in public debate.

Grant: 191839 / GI-50027-08,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: America's Historical & Cultural Organizations Implementation,   Year Awarded: 2008

Native American Clothing and Textiles: A Rehousing Project

Recipient: McKune, Amy (Indianapolis, IN 462042707 USA) in affiliation with Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art (Indianapolis, IN 46204 USA)

Goal: Purchase of storage furniture to rehouse dresses, leggings, Ghost Dance shirts, and other objects related to 19th-century Plains Indian history.

Description: The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art has an important collection of objects related to native cultures of North America. Within its collection is a select group of clothing that is temporarily stored on open shelves made of foam core. Access to Native American culture bearers and other researchers is limited, handling is difficult and potentially harmful and the objects are exposed to light, dust and other elements. This project, following recommendations from a CAP grant, will re-house larger clothing items, including Plains beaded dresses, Ghost Dance regalia, quilled and beaded war shirts, and selected shields in a cabinet -- designed to maximum conservation standards -- which will resolve these problems and better preserve the objects.

Grant: 189252 / PG-50255-08,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation Assistance Grants,   Year Awarded: 2008

Chilkat Weavings Mount and Exhibition Upgrade

Recipient: Clarke, Jerrie (Haines, AK 99827-0269 USA) in affiliation with Sheldon Museum and Cultural Center, Inc. (Haines, AK 99827 USA)

Goal: Hiring a conservator to oversee the remounting of Tlingit blankets and other textiles that reflect the art and culture of an Alaskan Native community. The project would also purchase the supplies and materials necessary to mount the textiles, which are part of a permanent exhibit.

Description: The scope of this project is to mount our collection of five Chilkat (Tlingit) weavings, Button Blanket/robe and Ravenstail Blanket/robe for exhibition (7 objects total). The goal of this project is to conserve and exhibit Native textiles of high cultural and historic value. Current exhibition mounts have been assessed as inadequate, placing preventable stress on the objects and making them inaccessible for monitoring, cleaning and general protection.

Grant: 189430 / PG-50433-08,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation Assistance Grants,   Year Awarded: 2008

Preserving and Creating Access to the Southwest Museum's California Indian Collections

Recipient: Karr, Steven (Los Angeles, CA 90027-1462 USA) in affiliation with Autry National Center (Los Angeles, CA 90027 USA)

Goal: Digital imaging and cataloging of 15,000 California Indian ethnographic objects, archaeological artifacts, and sound recordings from the collections of the Southwest Museum.

Description: The Autry National Center of the American West seeks a two-year $340,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the cataloging and digitization of 15,000 items in the Southwest Museum's California Indian collections. These materials include a variety of baskets, ethnographic, archaeological, and archival materials spanning all areas of the state. Records and images from the California Indian project will be made available to the public through the Autry's Collections Online web site. The Southwest Museum holdings of California Indian material are among the largest in scope of any single California Indian collection. Preservation and electronic cataloging of this material will greatly facilitate the Autry, as well as California tribal museums and cultural centers, in their ability to create permanent and temporary exhibitions, publications, online curricula, and other broadly accessible educational opportunities focused on California's indigenous peoples.

Grant: 184673 / PC-50070-07,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Grants to Preserve & Create Access to Humanities Collections,   Year Awarded: 2007

Isletan Images: A Photographic History of the Pueblo in the 19th Century

Recipient: Walt, Henry J (Albuquerque, NM 87108 USA) in affiliation with Pueblo of Isleta (Isleta, NM 87022 USA)

Goal: Implementation of a traveling exhibition and a publication on traditional life and change at Isleta, using early photographs to show how outsiders saw the pueblo and how historical information can be gleaned from the photographs.

Description: The Pueblo of Isleta seeks $357,568 to develop a multilingual exhibit of Isletan Images. This traveling exhibit will use photographs, oral narratives from Isletan elders, as well as ethnohistoric documentation to tell the story of a year in the life of Isleta in the 19th century. The Isletan year was based on a fixed cycle of ceremonial events that unfolded as a series of ritual re-enactments of renewal. The late 19th century was also a critical moment in Isleta's history; a time when monumental changes were occurring that would quickly transform the self-sufficiency and cohesiveness of Isletan life. It is this chronicle of the yearly cycle and the dramatic historic events that transected it that we will bring to life. The exhibit will consist of approximately 120 photographs taken by Charles Lummis, Adam Vroman, Edward Curtis, George Wharton James and many other renowned photographers. The humanities themes of the cycle of ritual life and historic change will be communicated through the photographs as well as maps, 3 multi-media displays and 11 comprehensive text panels. The exhibit will open in the fall of 2009 at the Pueblo of Isleta and will travel to confirmed venues at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, California; the Arizona State University Museum of Anthropology in the Phoenix metropolitan area; the Arizona State Museum in Tucson, Arizona; and the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

Grant: 186858 / MI-50105-07,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums Implementation,   Year Awarded: 2007

Conservation of Native American Ledger Art

Recipient: Book, Victoria (Norman, OK 73072 USA) in affiliation with University of Oklahoma, Norman (Norman, OK 73019 USA)

Goal: The Oklahoma Museum of Natural History holds three ledger art books related to the Kiowa tribe. Ledger art provides rich detail on the cultural practices of the Native American tribes found on the Southern Plains and captures detailed images of wars, battles, hunts, ceremonies, rituals, and other aspects of tribal life. This art can be a complex form of storytelling. A professional paper conservator will undertake preservation efforts to conserve these ledger books and to allow safe handling of the objects.

Grant: 181731 / PT-50033-06,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Save America's Treasures,   Year Awarded: 2006

The American Indian and Ethnohistory

Recipient: Anderson, Gary Clayton (Norman, OK 73019 USA) in affiliation with University of Oklahoma, Norman

Goal: A five-week seminar for fifteen college and university faculty to explore American Indian ethnohistory, a study of the relationship between Indians and Europeans.

Description: This seminar will explore American Indian Ethnohistory, a study of the relationship between Indians and Europeans, using as a foundation in understanding of the evolving nature of tribalism. Initial discussion will focus on cultural anthropology and its early role in developing the discipline, and then turn quickly to the growing contributions made by historians in the field. Some of the earliest ethnohistory looked broadly at the impact of European invasion on Indian tribes, showing in particular the demographic collapse that came with that invasion. This led to what is often called "victim" history. But by the 1980s, many ethnohistorians were probing deeply into the way Indians adapted to the European advance, especially how they changed their political, social, economic, and religious institutions to meet the needs of a changing world. It is this new history, of Indians as actors, which we will explore in the seminar in considerable detail.

Grant: 182062 / FS-50095-06,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2006

Skidegate Haida House and Pole Models for the World's Columbian Exposition

Recipient: Wright, Robin K (Seattle, WA 98195-3010 USA) in affiliation with University of Washington (Seattle, WA 98195 USA)

Goal: Planning for a traveling exhibition and a website about Native American house and totem pole models made for the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and how their display there reflected the development of the nascent discipline of anthropology.

Grant: 179884 / MP-50006-06,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums Planning,   Year Awarded: 2006

Indians of the Midwest

Recipient: Hosmer, Brian (Chicago, IL 60607-7109 USA) in affiliation with Newberry Library (Chicago, IL 60610 USA)

Goal: Planning of an interactive, multi-media website about the history and cultures of American Indians in the Midwest.

Grant: 179848 / LP-50004-06,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Libraries Planning,   Year Awarded: 2006

Re-designing the Peabody Museum's Hall of the North American Indian

Recipient: Fash, William (Cambridge, MA 02138 USA) in affiliation with Harvard University

Goal: Consultation with scholars and visits to other museums to plan for a reinstallation of the permanent exhibition on North American Indians.

Grant: 179921 / MC-50016-06,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums Consultation,   Year Awarded: 2006

Library Preservation Assessment

Recipient: Timbimboo-Madsen, Patty G (Brigham City, UT 84302-1449 USA) in affiliation with Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation

Goal: A consultation and workshop to develop recommendations for the care of tribal documentation and artifact collections in an interpretive center that is being designed.

Grant: 179250 / PA-51808-06,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 2006

Achein Center for Research and Cultural Exchange

Recipient: Lewis, Hayes (Santa Fe, NM 87508-1300 USA) in affiliation with Institute of American Indian Arts (Santa Fe, NM 87504 USA)

Goal: Construction of a Center for Research and Cultural Exchange and endowment for a visiting scholar program and technology expenses.

Description: The Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development known as IAIA submits this matching grant to the National Endowment for the Humanities for a two fold purpose; the construction of the Center for Research and Cultural Exchange and the implementation of educational, cultural research programming through the first ever visiting tribal college scholars program as part of our Lifelong Learning Center Program and Center. IAIA requests $750,000 from the Humanities and will match that amount over four years with $2,250,000 for a total of $3,000,000. One million, five hundred thousand ($1,500,000) will be used for the construction of the Center and $1,500,000 will be invested in an endowment for the visiting scholars program.

Grant: 172290 / CH-50172-05,   Division: Challenge Grants,   Program: Challenge Grants,   Year Awarded: 2005

Battling for Survival: American Indians in Montana

Recipient: Sanders, Jeffrey (Billings, MT 59101 USA) in affiliation with Montana State University, Billings (Billings, MT 59101-0245 USA)

Goal: Two five-day workshops for forty Montana K-12 teachers on Northern Cheyenne history and contemporary Cheyenne Indian culture.

Grant: 177230 / EZ-50146-05,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Faculty Humanities Workshops,   Year Awarded: 2005

The Nez Perce in Indian Territory

Recipient: Grafe, Steven LeRoy (Oklahoma City, OK 73111-7997 USA) in affiliation with National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum (Oklahoma City, OK USA)

Goal: Consultation for an exhibition and publication on the history of the exiled Nez Perce and their allies in Kansas and Oklahoma from 1877 to 1885.

Grant: 177139 / GM-50543-05,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2005