AMERICA'S GREAT OUTDOORS: Secretary Salazar Announces $8.4 million in Tribal Historic Preservation Grants

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: http://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	$54,853
Rancheria
Blue Lake Rancheria	$53,865	Makah	$62,587	Sisseton-Wahpeton	$61,685
Oyate
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	$54,015
Rancheria
Chitimacha Tribe of LA	$55,708	Narragansett	$57,419	Stockbridge-Munsee	$61,235
Band
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	$56,807
Community
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	Quapaw 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