National Park Service – Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Grant

The Recipient will:
1. Cooperate with NPS in the development of courses to meet the needs of NAGPRA constituents to comply with the law and to avail tribes of opportunities within the scope of the law and to inform museums of obligations.
2. Make trainers available to instruct at training events supported by NPS to provide varied training opportunities to tribal, museum and federal agency cultural resource professionals in different locations throughout the United States at various times in the year. .
3. Work with NPS to ensure that the broad range of NAGPRA constituent groups are served by training. Reach out to bring training to those underserved areas of the country and to tribes and tribal cultural resource staff who lack resources to attend training.
4. Maintain outreach and a website to provide information on upcoming course offerings and registration, fee waivers for courses for tribal and museum staff, travel reimbursement, and to easily enable the registration process.
5. Provide a supervisor/course coordinator competent in the kind of work required to complete the identified project(s). The supervisor shall be responsible for obtaining training materials from the instructors and securing sufficient numbers of course packets for each training event, making all on-site arrangements with training event hosts, delivering training materials, including evaluation forms, to the training sites, accounting for funds dispersed for travel and training, controlling the method and manner of work, and ensuring that the projects are undertaken and completed in a safe manner.
6. Administer tuition waivers to tribal and museum staff and provide NPS with a list of recipients on an annual basis.

The NPS and Recipient together will:
1. Cooperate in the design and implementation of a program of NAGPRA-related training projects.
2. Utilize other agencies and organizations to assist with providing technical expertise for training projects undertaken.
3. Undertake pre-project and closeout briefings for each project.

1. Work with recipient in developing a program involving cooperative efforts to create NAGPRA training materials, inform NAGPRA constituent groups throughout the country of the availability of training options and sessions, and to provide training in various sites and through varied modalities through joint planning of training events.
2. Provide the content for all training materials, written, oral, or video, and to obtain legal review of content when necessary.
3. Provide trainers for training events. Support efforts to plan and advertise training events. Participate in overall project management, choice of sites, dates and evaluation of course offerings.
4. Assign an appropriate NPS employee to monitor the ongoing work, to respond to questions about the nature and goals of the project, and act as liaison among the parties.
5. Identify the existing course offerings by the recipient, which are of assistance to constituents of the National NAGPRA program, and qualify those courses as eligible for tuition waivers supported by NPS, in grants to tribal cultural resource staff.
6. Collaborate in produce a multi-segment training video on NAGPRA compliance and implementation for use in training events and for distribution to tribes, museums and federal agencies.
7. In conjunction with recipient, review and approve each phase of projects prior to the commencement of subsequent phases.
Complete recipient project-related forms in conjunction with project.

The Recipient will:

1. Cooperate with NPS in the development of courses to meet the needs of NAGPRA constituents to comply with the law and to avail tribes of opportunities within the scope of the law.
2. Make trainers available to instruct at training events supported by NPS to provide varied training opportunities to tribal, museum and federal agency cultural resource professionals in different locations throughout the United States at various times in the year. .
3. Work with NPS to ensure that the broad range of NAGPRA constituent groups are served by training. Reach out to bring training to those underserved areas of the country and to tribes and tribal cultural resource staff who lack resources to attend training.
4. Maintain a website to provide information on upcoming course offerings and registration, fee waivers for courses for tribal staff, and easily enable the registration process.
5. Provide a full-time supervisor, course coordinator competent in the kind of work required to complete the identified project(s). The supervisor shall be responsible for obtaining training materials from the instructors and securing sufficient numbers of course packets for each training event, making all on-site arrangements with training event hosts, delivering training materials, including evaluation forms, to the training sites, accounting for funds dispersed for travel and training, controlling the method and manner of work, and ensuring that the projects are undertaken and completed in a safe manner.
6. Administer tuition waivers to tribal staff and provide NPS with a list of recipients on an annual basis.

The NPS and Recipient together will:

1. Cooperate in the design and implementation of a program of NAGPRA-related training projects.
2. Utilize other agencies and organizations to assist with providing technical expertise for training projects undertaken.
3. Undertake pre-project and closeout briefings for each project.