Previous Awards

Ancestral Gila Homelands: Indigenous Kinship Ties and Land Ethics—2,000 Years, Before and Beyond

Project Lead: Michelle Kells Affiliations: Chicana & Chicano Studies, UNM  ... read more

Chaco Heritage Project

With a grant from the NEA-NPS Imagine Your Parks initiative, UNM’s Maxwell Museum fostered continuity of creative expression among Southwest Native artists by funding residencies to access ancient Chaco materials in the Maxwell and Chaco Cultu... read more

Hopi Carvers Consultation and Public Presentation

This project was undertaken by graduate student Leon Natker as part of his fulfillment of the Master of Arts degree in Museum Studies. In order to establish a baseline for an emic interpretation of the Maxwell Museum’s Dorothy Maxwell Collecti... read more

iArch Exhibit - Pueblo Contemporary Architecture

Project Lead: Ted Jojola, Dr. Lynn Paxson, and Paula Mirabal Affiliations: Center for Regional Planning, Indigenous Design + Planning Institute, UNM, Iowa State University, and Indian Pueblo Cultural Center... read more

Incorporating Cultural Information in Forensic Casework: Insights from South Texas and Guatemala

Project Lead: Kelly Kamnikar and Heather JH Edgar Affiliations: Anthropology and Pathology/Office of the Medical Investigator, UNM... read more

Indigenous Borderlands in North America Conference

Project Lead: Samuel Truett, Joshua L. Reid, Elizabeth N. Ellis, Nakia D. Parker, and Boyd Cothran Affiliations: History and Center for the Southwest, UNM, History, University of Washington, History, New York University, History, Michigan State Univ... read more

Language and Cultural Outreach

Project Lead: Emma Trentman, Heather Sweetser, and Glenn Fetzer Affiliations: Language Learning Center, UNM and New Mexico Organization of Language Educators... read more

Support for Garifuna Language Classes

Project Lead: Andrew Gorvetzian Affiliations: Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Preventive Medicine, UNM... read more

Women Constructing Other Women: Social Practice, Co-Construction, and Self-Discovery through Creative Works in the Tertulias Peer Support Project with Women Immigrants from Mexico

Project Lead:  Janet Page-Reeves, Lidia Regino, Maria Tellez Affliations: Office for Community Health, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Office for Community Health, Tertulias Research, UNM, and Tertulias, Engagement Director.... read more