Summary
The grant provides funding for museums, Indian Tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations to support consultation, documentation, and repatriation of Native American human remains and cultural objects under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Eligible entities can apply for assistance with costs related to packaging, transportation, decontamination, reburial, and storage of NAGPRA items. Specific project activities may include travel, transportation, testing, building transport containers, acquiring ceremonial materials, and staff time. For more details on project activities and how to apply, refer to the Program Overview document.
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.
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