SHELBYVILLE, MI – The Gun Lake Tribe’s Tribal Historic Preservation Office has been awarded a $41,384 Tribal Heritage Grant funded by the Historic Preservation Fund and administered by the National Park Service. The funds awarded through the grant will allow the Tribal Historic Preservation Office to create a Tribal Register of Historic Places and implement forms, policies, and procedures.
Through this project, the tribe plans to develop a formalized process to nominate places of cultural and historical importance on tribal and ancestral lands significant to the Pottawatomi people. The Tribal Register will interface with the Tribal Historic Preservation Office’s GIS (geographic information system) inventory of significant places and cultural resources, which was also funded by the National Park Service’s Tribal Heritage Grant in 2020.
“This grant funding allows us to continue to build historic preservation programs for our Gun Lake Tribe citizens and to build out our infrastructure to better serve them,” said Lakota Hobia, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer. “We are also able to use this grant money to further focus on community outreach and educational programming.”