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Cean Burgeson
Public Information Director
(269) 397-1780 XT 1212
(269) 615-9269 (cell)
BRADLEY, MICH., Oct. 22, 2024 – 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, Department of Interior. The funds awarded through this 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 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 Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Lakota Hobia, “We are also able to use this grant money to further focus on community outreach and educational programming.”
Questions related to the grant and the Gun Lake Tribe’s Tribal Historic Preservation Office should be directed to the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Lakota Hobia, at 269-397-1780 or Lakota.Hobia@glt-nsn.gov. For more details about the Historic Preservation Fund, NPS Tribal Heritage grant, and other 2024 recipients, click here.
About Gun Lake Tribe
The Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi (Gun Lake Tribe) has a rich history in West Michigan and close connection to the land. The Bradley Indian Mission, located near Wayland, is the historic residential and cultural center point of the tribal community. The Tribe’s ancestors, and political predecessors, signed treaties with the United States government dating back to 1795. The Tribe was re-affirmed to federal recognition in 1999. For more information about the Tribe, visit https://gunlaketribe-nsn.gov/.
