Gabrielle Tayac, Associate Professor, History and Art History, College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS), received funding for the project: “INCL: Indigenous America 250 Community Engagement PHASE 2.”
This project supports Interpretation and Education for the Indigenous America 250 HRS, a collection of programs and initiatives focused on providing interpretation and education about Indigenous American history and culture.
Tayac will identify five sites for optimal interpretation and educational products in line with the data sovereignty findings. She will review materials produced in Phase 1 reports in consultation with National Park Service officials and partners. Appropriate Tribal knowledge holders and museologists with interpretive experience who have been in consultation on the project will convene in one on-site session to produce an interpretive plan, engage in one follow-up in person or virtual interpretive plan review session, and one final review session on the interpretive plan. Based on the co-curatorial work and reviews, five interpretive educational products will be prototyped for site implementation.
Tayac received $231,181 from the National Park Service for this project. Funding began in Aug. 2025 and will end in late Dec. 2027.
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