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Awards given for Alaska's Statehood Experience!
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Rasmuson Foundation and the Alaska Humanities Forum have partnered to award 24 projects which commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Alaska Statehood. These statewide and local community projects explore the history of statehood, the circumstances that brought it about, and projects that address the meaning of statehood as Alaska looks ahead to the next fifty years. ASE is also supported by corporate and private support and the National Endowment for the Humanities “We the People” program. These 24 projects include: Media, Public Meetings/Exhibits, Oral History, Research, Planning, and Creative Expression. Click on logo to view the projects awarded!
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General Grants
The Forum Grant Programs award approximately $130,000 yearly to non-profit organizations and individuals for projects that seek to explore the humanities in our state. For more information about any of the Forum’s grant programs, please contact the Grants Officer at 907-272-5373 or via email at
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2012 General Grant Awards- Total $155,344
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Project Title
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Project Director : Sponsoring Organization
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Grant Award
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| Hoonah's Heroes |
Samantha Farinella: Women Make Movies |
$10,000
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| The Peratrovich Legacy |
Carolyn V Brown MD MPH: League of Women Voters Alaska Educational Fund |
$7,000
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| Alaska Statehood Pioneers: In Their Own Words |
Tim Olson: Capital Community Broadcasting, Inc. |
$7,500
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| Homer Communities of Memory Project Jukebox |
Karen Brewster: University of Alaska Fairbanks |
$5,000
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| Sharing Our Knowledge: A Conference of Tlingit Tribes and Clans |
Gerry Hope: Tlingit Readers Inc. |
$5,000
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| Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference |
Carol Swartz: Kachemak Bay Campus-Kenai Peninsula College |
$7,000
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| Kodiak's Filipino Community Stories |
Marie Acemah: Kodiak Historical Society / Baranov Museum |
$8,500
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| Working Name: Alaska Native Hybrid, Documentary Planning Grant-Exploring Contemporary Native Identity |
Robert Kinneen |
$2,000
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ICEBOUND
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Daniel Anker: API Arts and Outreach |
$10,000
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| Aleutian History Ledgers Digitizing and Transcribing Project: Lost Aleutian Logbooks 1875 - 1907 |
J Pennelope Goforth
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$4,470
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| Formline Interpretation Project |
Sarah Dybdahl: Sealaska Heritage Institute |
$7,000
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| Lower Koyukuk River Traditional Place Names |
Catherine Moncrieff: Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association |
$7,000
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| Prince William Sound Museum Exhibit Model Construction |
Ted Spencer: Prince William Sound Economic Development District |
$5,000
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| Sitka Lutheran Church Oral History Project |
Harvey Brandt: Sitka Lutheran Church |
$4,536
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| Documenting Art Technologies: Connecting Alaska Native artists and our museum collections |
Nadia Jackinsky: Friends of the Sheldon Jackson Museum |
$8,000
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| The Alutiiq Word of the Week Book |
Amy Steffian: Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository |
$8,483
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| Moose Jaw's Cabin |
Joe Rizzo: Alaska Children's Institute for the Performing Arts |
$7,305
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| Development of THE DEFENDERS OF ALASKA NATIVE COUNTRY and related workshop, readings, & discussions |
Art Rotch: Perseverance Theatre, Inc |
$8,000
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| Dena'ianq' Huch'ulyeshi: The Dena'ina Way of Living Catalog |
Suzi Jones, Ph.D.: Anchorage Museum Association |
$8,000
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| 20th Annual Last Frontier Theatre Conferenc |
Dawson Moore: Prince William Sound Community College |
$6,000
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| Traveling by Story Through Copper River Country |
Kristin Carpenter: Copper River Watershed Project |
$8,000
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Traveling Exhibition of “When Crab Was King: Faces of the Kodiak King Crab Fishery 1950-1982.”
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Toby Sullivan: Kodiak Maritime Museum |
$4,000
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| People, Place, & Parkland: Oral Histories of Pre- and Post-Park Wrangell-St. Elias National Park |
Jeremy Pataky: Wrangell Mountains Center |
$7,550
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2011 General Grant Awards - Total $126,000
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Project Title
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Project Director : Sponsoring Organization
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Grant Award
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Project Location
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Paisavut Oral History Project
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Leland Barger & Sarah Hobart: Aqqaluk Trust
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$5,000
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Kotzebue and NANA region villages
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The 19th Annual Last Frontier Theatre Conference
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Dawson Moore: Prince William Sound Community College
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$6,500
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Valdez
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Meaning Through Tradition: the Glory Hole Mural and Lecture Project
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Mariya Lovishchuk: Juneau Cooperative Christian Ministry dba The Glory Hole
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$4,000
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Juneau
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Yupiit Piciryarait Museum Permanent Exhibits
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Vivian Korthuis: Association of Village Council Presidents
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$7,000
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Bethel
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Connecting Cultures Phase 2
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Jimmie Ware
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$7,000
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Barrow/ Anchorage
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2011 Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference
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Carol Swartz: Kachemak Bay Campus-Kenai Peninsula College
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$7,000
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Homer
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2011 Dry Bay Celebration: Remembering Our Ancestors
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Bertrand J. Adams Sr.: Yakutat Tlingit Tribe
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$7,000
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Yakutat/ Dry Bay
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The Eyak Language Project: q'aayaa tl'ihx (A New Beginning)
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Laura Bliss Spaan: Eyak Preservation Council
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$9,000
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Cordova
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PHASE II: The 3-Country (Alaska-Japan-Yukon) Jujiro Wada Global Archiving Program (GAP) Project
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James H. Sinnett: City of Seward, Alaska
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$5,000
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Seward
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Nikolai Collaborative Youth and Elder Documentary Film Project
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Marie Acemah: Atheneum School
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$7,000
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Nikolai/ Anchorage
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Revitalizing our ancestral language "Alutiiq"
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Kari Sherod: Native Village of Afognak
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$6,000
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Afognak
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Strengthening Community through Conversation: Difficult Dialogues about Homelesness in Anchorage
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Dr. Susan H. Bomalaski: Catholic Social Services
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$4,500
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Anchorage
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Baskets and Branches: a Portrait of Delores Churchill
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Ellen Frankenstein: Artchange
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$7,000
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Sitka
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Kwethluk Children's Home
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Katie Basile
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$4,500
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Kwethluk/ New York City
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Aswituuq's Dream, An Alutiiq Story
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April Laktonen Counceller: Alutiiq Heritage Foundation
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$4,000
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Kodiak
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Bethel Communities of Memory Project Jukebox
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Dr. William Schneider: University of Alaska Fairbanks
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$7,000
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Fairbanks/ Bethel
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Ouzinkie Oral History Project
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Sharon Anderson: Spruce Island Development Corporation
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$7,000
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Ouzinkie
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Seasons of Subsistence: Native Life in Bristol Bay
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Nick Hall
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$8,000
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Dillingham/ Togiak/ Seattle
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Northwest Arctic Inupiaq Language Planning
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Ukallaysaaq Tom Okleasik: Northwest Arctic Borough
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$6,000
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Kotzebue
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Kodiak King Crab Fishery Photo Portrait Project
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Toby Sullivan: Kodiak Maritime Museum
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$3,500
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Kodiak
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Sailing for Salmon
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Tim Troll: Nushagak-Mulchatna / Wood-Tikchik Land Trust
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$4,000
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Dillingham
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2010 General Grant Awards - Total $135,909
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Project Title
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Project Director : Sponsoring Organization
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Grant Award
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King Island Book Research
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Alison Stein Wellner: Alaska House, New York
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$10,000
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Seasons of Subsistence: Native Life In Bristol Bay
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Nick Hall
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$7,260
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Baskets and Branches: A Portrait of Haida Weaver Delores Churchill
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Ellen Frankenstein
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$9,850
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Gunaaxoo/Guseix Field Trips
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Bertrand J. Adams, Sr.
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$5,100
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THE BLUE BEAR: Creation of an Alaskan-inspired dramatic text and related workshops and discussions
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Arthur Rotch: Perseverance Theatre, Inc.
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$10,000
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2010 Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference
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Carol Swartz: Kachemak Bay Campus-Kenai Peninsula College
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$8,000
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In Her Footsteps: "The Best Stories Have Never Been Told!"
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Michelle L. Dent, Ph.D.
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$3,500
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Living By The Tides: Sense of Place and Identity in Kachemak Bay
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Holly Cusack-McVeigh, Ph.D.: Pratt Museum/Homer Society of Natural History, Inc.
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$7,199
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Alaska Anthropological Association Public Education Lecture Series
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Karlene Leeper: Alaska Anthropological Association
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$2,400
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50 Years of Northern Light
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Caven Keith: Presbytery of Yukon
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$8,000
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Stories from the Eagle Flood
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Jesse Dukes
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$4,850
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Juneau Communities of Memory Project Jukebox
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Dr. William Schneider: University of Alaska Fairbanks
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$5,000
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Preserving Our History: Digitizing Alaska Native Stories and Traditions from ANS 401
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Dr. Jordan Lewis: University of Alaska Fairbanks
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$5,000
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Caroline or Change - A musical play that addresses questions of culture, community, race, and class.
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Sandy Harper: Cyrano's Theatre Company
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$2,500
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Up For Discussion: What Makes a Sustainable Community?
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Dorik Mechau: The Island Institute
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$7,000
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Alaska State Parks 40th Anniversary History Project
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Claire Holland LeClair: Friends of Eagle River Nature Center
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$7,500
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Ahtna Heritage Foundation Website Development Project
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Liana Charley John: Ahtna Heritage Foundation
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$5,000
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The 18th Annual Last Frontier Theatre Conference
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Dawson Moore: Prince William Sound Community College
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$6,000
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Northern Review Special Literary Issue 2010
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Dr. Eric Heyne: University of Alaska Fairbanks
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$2,000
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Chief Son-I-Hat Whale House Documentation Project
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Richard J. Peterson: Organized Village of Kasaan
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$9,750
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Chenega Diaries Project
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Karen Rogina: Chenega Heritage Incorporated
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$10,000
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2009 General Grant Awards - Total $114,187
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Project Title
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Project Director : Sponsoring Organization
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Grant Award
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Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference
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Carol Swartz: Kachemak Bay Campus-Kenai Peninsula College
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$7,000
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Reclaiming the Griot, Awakening Tradition
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Jimmi Ware: Black Feather Poets
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$6,000
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Alaskan Ethnographical Collections Made by Finnish Shipmasters: Bartram, Juselius and Krogius
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Prof. Glynn R Barratt
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$3,500
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Sak Anni' (Land of the Hooligan): Traditional Harvest and Preparation of Upper Lynn Canal Hooligan
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Morgen Smith: Chilkoot Indian Association
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$4,000
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Sail Fishery and Fox Hunting: Bristol Bay 1940
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Harald Backman
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$2,000
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Kayaking Traditions
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Dr. Sven Haakanson, Jr.: Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository
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$7,000
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Stampede! The Story of the 1898 Valdez Gold Rush
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Raymond Voley: Kenny Lake School
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$4,000
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Communicating Across Cultures II
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James Mahan: Capital Community Broadcasting, Inc. (KTOO)
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$5,000
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Cordova Maritime Center - Document Research & Cataloguing
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Beth Poole: Cordova District Fishermen United
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$4,500
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Who Was Who in Russian America: A Comprehensive Biographical Dictionary
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Andrei A. Znamenski: Cook Inlet Historical Society
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$7,000
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Ahtna Athabascan Kenaege' Sae/ (Language Box)
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Gabe Carmen: Chickaloon Native Village
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$6,500
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Sailing the Bay: 125 Years of Commercial Fishing in Bristol Bay
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Tim Troll: Nushagak-Mulchatna / Wood-Tikchik Land Trust
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$4,000
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17th Annual Last Frontier Theatre Conference
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Dawson Moore: Prince William Sound Community College
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$5,000
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Aleutian Island Jukebox
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Dr. William S. Schneider: University of Alaska Fairbanks
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$7,937
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Reviving the Sheldon Museum Oral History Program
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Jerrie Clarke: Sheldon Museum and Cultural Center
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$5,750
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Good Friday Earthquake: Seward Alaska on March 27, 1964
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Patricia Linville: City of Seward - Seward Community Library
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$3,500
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Chaqenq'a - Dena'ina Fish Camp: A Collaborative, Community-Based Approach to Exhibit Design
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Holly Cusack-McVeigh, Ph.D.: Pratt Museum/Homer Society of Natural History, Inc.
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$8,500
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Inupiaq Ingenuity Through Time - An Oral History Made Fresh for the Youth
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Allison Warden
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$3,000
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Images of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill on Kodiak Island
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Toby Sullivan: Kodiak Maritime Museum
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$9,000
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Sharing Our Knowledge: A Conference of Tlingit Tribes and Clans
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Dr. Richard Dauenhauer: Tlingit Readers
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$5,000
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Haida Cultural and Historic Records Preservation
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Dr. Stephen J. Langdon: Hydaburg Cooperative Association
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$6,000
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2008 General Grant Awards - Total $154,607
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Project Title
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Project Director : Sponsoring Organization
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Grant Award
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Yaabaa Teshai Stories of the Mendees Cheeg, as told by Ellen Demit, Matriarch of Healy Lake, Alaska
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Connie Friend: Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge
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$5,416
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A Comparison of Eskimo Myth and Lore to Those of Other World Cultures
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Elizabeth L. Dowdy: Northwest Christian College
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$5,000
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Symposium "Working Together to Create our Yup'ik Science Exhibit"
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Evguenia Anichtchenko: Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center
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$5,000
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Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference
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Carol Swartz: Kachemak Bay Campus-Kenai Peninsula College
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$6,000
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Phase 2 - Moving Image and audio collection inventory and access project
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Dave Morgan: Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum
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$6,000
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24th Annual Sitka Symposium, To Have and To Hold: The Gifts of the Commons
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Carolyn Servid: The Island Institute
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$5,000
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Life histories of Ethiopians during the Military dictatorship (1974 � 1991)
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Esther S. Antohin
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$5,000
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Collection-level Cataloguing of AMIPA's Archives
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Michele Miller: Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association (AMIPA)
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$5,000
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The Torrent Shipwreck: Searching for Alaska's Underwater History (A Documentary Film)
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Steve Lloyd
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$10,000
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Heinya: Southern Tlingit Dialect and Oral History Documentation Project
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Sarah Dybdahl: Sealaska Heritage Institute
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$3,000
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Ahtna Anthology: Phase III
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Cynthea L. Ainsworth, Ph.D.
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$8,000
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16th Annual Last Frontier Theatre Conference
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Dawson Moore: Prince William Sound Community College
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$5,000
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Second Annual Alaska Book Festival
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Robert Mandel: University of Alaska Press
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$5,000
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Fairbanks Communities of Memory
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William Schneider: University of Alaska Fairbanks
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$8,716
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Alaska Native Heritage Month 2008
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Michael Fredericks: Alaska Native Heritage Month, Inc.
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$3,500
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OurTime 2008: Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote
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Elizabeth Posey: Anchorage Urban League
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$10,000
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"Coming Home: The Story of the Alutiiq Masks," a production of Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
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Dixie Hutchinson: Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
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$8,000
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Trails North: One Girl's Quest to Run the Junior Iditarod
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Joe Rizzo: Alaska Children's Institute for the Performing Arts (Triumvirate Theatre)
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$3,169
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UAA/APU Book-of-the-Year: A Focused Collection by Alaska Native Writers
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Libby Roderick: University of Alaska Anchorage
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$5,000
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Planning Grant: Fishing the Bay - 125 Years and Counting
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Tim Troll: Nushagak-Mulchatna / Wood-Tikchik Land Trust
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$2,500
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The Lure of the Salmon Song
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Dorothy Laigo Cordova: Filipino American National Historical Society
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$5,450
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The Making of a Champion: The Mindset of George Attla
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Kathy Turco
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$5,000
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Post-Production preparation for broadcast of the documentary video, "Unraveling the Wind"
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Beatrice Adler: Storyknife
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$5,000
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Weaver's Gathering 2008
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Kay Field Parker: Ravenstail Weavers' Guild
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$6,000
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Traditional Knowledge, Values, and Language Preserved in Parts of Norton Sound
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Henry Oyoumick
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$5,000
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The Vincent Soboleff Photograph Collection and the Cultural History of Killisnoo, a Tri-ethnic Community in the Heart of Tlingit Country
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Sergei Kan
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$3,000
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Salmon trolling oral history panel presentation, slide show and photo display
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Rebecca Poulson: Sitka Maritime Heritage Society, Inc.
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$750
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Traditional brain tanning of moose hides and other traditional methods of tanning hides.
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Beckie Etukeok
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$3,000
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Maniilaq Assocation Digital Media Project
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Lisa Savok: Maniilaq Association
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$5,150
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Ahtna Dipnet Project
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Tana Finnesand: Ahtna Heritage Foundation
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$1,956
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2007 General Grant Awards - Total $103,100
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Project Title
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Project Director : Sponsoring Organization
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Grant Award
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Saving a Priceless Alaska Native Oral History Collection
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Leonard Kamerling : University of Alaska Museum of the North
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$8,594
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Kodiak King Crab: The Rise and Fall of an Industry: An Oral History
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Mike Pfeffer : Kodiak Maritime Museum
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$7,500
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Davenport Flagstop and the Case of the Golden Spike: A Railroad Mystery
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Joe Rizzo : Alaska Children's Institute for the Performing Arts
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$10,600
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Kachemak Bay Writer's Conference
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Carol Swartz : Kachemak Bay Campus - Kenai Peninsula College
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$5,000
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Carl E. Wynn Nature Center: ecology, landscape, and land use through time
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Elizabeth Trowbridge : Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies, Inc.
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$5,000
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Ahtna Anthology: Phase II
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Cynthea Ainsworth, PhD
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$10,000
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If Only These Walls Could Talk: Interpretative Storytelling of Homer Homesteading
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Betsy Webb:Pratt Museum
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$6,000
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Nanwalek: Photographing Native Ways in Changing Times
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Lisa Williams : Fotovision
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$5,000
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Alaska Sisters in Crime's Authors in the Schools Program for 2007
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Dana Stabenow : Alaska Sisters in Crime
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$5,000
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Alaska Far Away: The New Deal Pioneers of the Matanuska Colony
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Joan Juster : Palmer Historical Society
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$3,684
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Moving Image and audio collection inventory and information access project
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Dave Morgan : Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum
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$6,000
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Russo-Tlingit Armed Collisions (1792-1804): Conclusion
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Dr. Glynn deV Barratt
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$3,900
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The St. Herman of Alaska Film Project
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Sean Bledsoe
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$1,370
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Pilot Point Oral History Project
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Gregory Kingsley : Pilot Point Tribal Council
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$4,000
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2007 Alaska High School Mock Trial Championship
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Ryan Fortson : Anchorage Bar Association, Young Lawyers Section
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$1,000
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The 23rd annual Sitka Symposium: Finding Beauty in a Wounded World
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Carolyn Servid : The Island Institute, Inc.
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$5,000
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The Challenges and Successes of Preserving Indigenous Cultures in Alaska in the 21st Century
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Ray Clements, Ph.D. : Older Persons Action Group, Inc.
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$3,000
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Taking Oral History to the Next Level
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William Schneider : University of Alaska Fairbanks
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$12,452
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2006 General Grant Awards - Total $60,001
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Project Title
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Project Director : Sponsoring Organization
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Grant Award
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Finding Their Own Dance: Reawakening the Alutiiq Arts
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Ellen Van't Hof: Calvin College
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$6,000
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Names: Keys to Our Past and Cultural Continuity
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Kathy Miller: Sealaska
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$5,257
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Games of the North- Point Hope Shoot
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Steven Alvarez: Alaska Native Heritage Center
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$5,500
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Kachemak Bay Writers
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Carol Swarts: Kenai Peninsula College
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$5,000
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Research for Documentary Film: "We Wear Our History: Northwest Coast Regalia Stories"
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Clarissa Hudson: Artstream Cultural Resources
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$4,000
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Children's Interactive Learning Center at the Sheldon Museum
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Kathryn Friedle: Sheldon Museum & Cultural Center
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$3,200
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Computer Cataloging the HSHS Artifact Collection
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Art Copoulos: Hope & Sunrise Historical Society
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$2,000
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The Kennecott Cadre Project
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Ray Voley: Kenny Lake School, Copper River School District
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$4,000
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A Cultural and Historical Geography of Cambell
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Cherie Northon
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$3,550
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North American Saints Series-DVD#1
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Katherine Vitko, Alexandra Safchuck: Orthodox Chrurch in America, Department of History and Archives
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$5,000
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The Vincent Soboleff Photograph Collection and the Ethnohistory of Killisnoo, a Native Alaskan Community (1890's-1920's)
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Sergi Kan
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$2,000
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Asiin… (translation from Inupiatun to English: And then…)
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Elizabeth Saagulik Hensley : Inuit Circumpolar Conference of Alaska
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$1,500
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Tamamta Katurlluta – A Gathering of Native Tradition Media Project
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Gale Parsons : Pratt Museum
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$3,200
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July 1915: Wickersham Meets the Tanana Chiefs
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Thomas L. Alton
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$2,000
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Baranov’s Castle
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Joe Rizzo : Alaska Children’s Institute for the Performing Arts
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$2,000
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Contemporary Art and Architecture of Alaska
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Julie Decker : International Gallery of Contemporary Art
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$2,000
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Pioneering Alaska’s Conservation Movement: The Life Story of Ginny Wood
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Karen Brewster: University of Alaska Fairbanks
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$3,794
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Contact Information
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