Project Information

Title: Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository Sustainability Project 22220503

Project Year and Number: 2022: 22220503

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2024: 24220503 , 2023: 23220503

Principal Investigator (PI): April Counceller (Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository)

Managing Agency: DCCED

Assisting Personnel: None

Project Website: https://alutiiqmuseum.org/

Research Location: Kodiak Island

Restoration Category: General Restoration

Injured Resources Addressed: Archaeological Resources

Abstract:

The Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository (AMAR) requests $8,000,000 to purchase and renovate Kodiak’s Alutiiq Center. This project will expand education and repository spaces and install energy-saving, environmentally superior technologies to support efficient, sustainable collections care and program operations. This facility project is proposed under the General Restoration’s Management of Human Use focus area, seeking to protect and restore subsistence practices and resources of the Alutiiq people. It will ensure AMAR remains a permanent, valuable resource for the community and the State of Alaska. Founded in 1995 following EVOSTC funding through Kodiak Area Native Association, AMAR is a public, non-profit, organization. It is nationally and state accredited as a research and exhibit institution, collections repository, and community education center that preserves, restores, and shares Alutiiq heritage and culture. AMAR has overflowed its original footprint after 25 years of program evolution and collections growth, providing public education, documenting archaeological sites, and reducing site vandalism and cultural degradation. AMAR now leases additional space to advance its mission. As promised in 1993 when EVOSTC funded AMAR construction to facilitate systemic documentation of spill injured sites and artifact collections, AMAR has become the focal point for research by universities, Native organizations, and government agencies, as well as a regional repository for artifacts and documentation on injured sites. The impetus to establish AMAR was to ensure Alutiiq artifacts remain accessible to the Kodiak Alutiiq Nation and its ten federally-recognized tribes who have lived on Kodiak for over 7,000 years. This commitment continues. 

Additionally, AMAR has conducted extensive work to preserve the Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) about Alutiiq subsistence practices—a resource EVOSTC recognizes has not recovered. AMAR facility development will better accommodate culture-bearers and empower the tribal community toward long-term sustainability of vital preservation, research, and education—rekindling TEK practices that otherwise may be lost.

This project was approved for the FY22-FY26 funding cycle.


Proposal: View (21,110 KB)

Reports:
FY22 Q1 Report (No sufficient work done to report): File Unavailable
FY22 Q2 Report (No sufficient work done to report): File Unavailable
FY22 Q3 Report: View (334 KB)
FY22 Q4 Report: View (1,117 KB)

Publications from this Project: None Available

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