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2011 General Grant Awards Announced!

Project Title

Project Director : Sponsoring Organization

Grant Award

Project Location

Paisavut Oral History Project

Leland Barger & Sarah Hobart: Aqqaluk Trust

$5,000

Kotzebue and NANA region villages

The 19th Annual Last Frontier Theatre Conference

Dawson Moore: Prince William Sound Community College

$6,500

Valdez

Meaning Through Tradition: the Glory Hole Mural and Lecture Project

Mariya Lovishchuk: Juneau Cooperative Christian Ministry dba The Glory Hole

$4,000

Juneau

Yupiit Piciryarait Museum Permanent Exhibits

Vivian Korthuis: Association of Village Council Presidents

$7,000

Bethel

Connecting Cultures Phase 2

Jimmie Ware

$7,000

Barrow/ Anchorage

2011 Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference

Carol Swartz: Kachemak Bay Campus-Kenai Peninsula College

$7,000

Homer

2011 Dry Bay Celebration: Remembering Our Ancestors

Bertrand J. Adams Sr.: Yakutat Tlingit Tribe

$7,000

Yakutat/ Dry Bay

The Eyak Language Project: q'aayaa tl'ihx (A New Beginning)

Laura Bliss Spaan: Eyak Preservation Council

$9,000

Cordova

PHASE II: The 3-Country (Alaska-Japan-Yukon) Jujiro Wada Global Archiving Program (GAP) Project

James H. Sinnett: City of Seward, Alaska

$5,000

Seward

Nikolai Collaborative Youth and Elder Documentary Film Project

Marie Acemah: Atheneum School

$7,000

Nikolai/ Anchorage

Revitalizing our ancestral language "Alutiiq"

Kari Sherod: Native Village of Afognak

$6,000

Afognak

Strengthening Community through Conversation: Difficult Dialogues about Homelesness in Anchorage

Dr. Susan H. Bomalaski: Catholic Social Services

$4,500

Anchorage

Baskets and Branches: a Portrait of Delores Churchill

Ellen Frankenstein: Artchange

$7,000

Sitka

Kwethluk Children's Home

Katie Basile

$4,500

Kwethluk/ New York City

Aswituuq's Dream, An Alutiiq Story

April Laktonen Counceller: Alutiiq Heritage Foundation

$4,000

Kodiak

Bethel Communities of Memory Project Jukebox

Dr. William Schneider: University of Alaska Fairbanks

$7,000

Fairbanks/ Bethel

Ouzinkie Oral History Project

Sharon Anderson: Spruce Island Development Corporation

$7,000

Ouzinkie

Seasons of Subsistence: Native Life in Bristol Bay

Nick Hall

$8,000

Dillingham/ Togiak/ Seattle

Northwest Arctic Inupiaq Language Planning

Ukallaysaaq Tom Okleasik: Northwest Arctic Borough

$6,000

Kotzebue

Kodiak King Crab Fishery Photo Portrait Project

Toby Sullivan: Kodiak Maritime Museum

$3,500

Kodiak

Sailing for Salmon

Tim Troll: Nushagak-Mulchatna / Wood-Tikchik Land Trust

$4,000

Dillingham