Tribe receives grant to advance historic preservation

Real Estate

Nov 6

The Gun Lake Tribe’s Tribal Historic Preservation Office, headquartered in Shelbyville, has received a $41,384 Tribal Heritage Grant from the Historic Preservation Fund, administered by the National Park Service. This grant will enable the Tribal Historic Preservation Office to establish a Tribal Register of Historic Places and develop the necessary forms, policies, and procedures.

The project aims to create a structured process for nominating sites of cultural and historical significance on tribal and ancestral lands that hold importance to the Pottawatomi people. The Tribal Register will integrate with the Tribal Historic Preservation Office’s Geographic Information System inventory of notable sites and cultural resources, which was also supported by a National Park Service 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 Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Lakota Hobia, “We are also able to use this grant money to further focus on community outreach and educational programming.”