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Opportunity Summary:

The grant opportunity titled "Qamani Up the Coast, in My Mind, in My Heart" is a National Park Service funded project focused on documenting and preserving Iupiaq cultural and linguistic knowledge tied to coastal areas within a National Park System preserve. The core purpose is to record Iupiaq place names along the preserve coastline and to capture the meaning carried with those names, including associated descriptions, oral histories, stories, and narratives. By doing this, the project aims to protect language knowledge embedded in traditional geography and to strengthen understanding of how Iupiat communities relate to, navigate, and interpret the coastal landscape through place-based knowledge.

A major emphasis of the project is subsistence. Beyond simply listing place names, the work is designed to document past and present subsistence practices connected to those locations, such as where and how people hunted, fished, traveled, gathered, and camped. This makes the project useful not only as a cultural record but also as a way to track and better understand changes in subsistence practices over time. In practical terms, the documentation can help explain how environmental conditions, access, seasonality, and community use patterns have shifted, while grounding that analysis in the knowledge of elders and culture bearers who have lived experience and community authority.

The project also highlights an Indigenous ecosystem perspective. Rather than treating each site as isolated, it intends to show how place names relate to one another and reflect interconnected relationships among landforms, waters, species, travel routes, and human use. The interconnections among named places are part of how Iupiat peoples conceptualize the coast as a living, integrated system. The grant frames this as a way to demonstrate Indigenous concepts of ecosystem, where cultural meaning, ecological observation, and subsistence practices are closely linked and reinforce one another.

In terms of approach and activities, project staff will conduct interviews with approximately 4 to 8 Iupiat elders and culture bearers from Wales. These interviews are meant to collect coastal place names and the knowledge attached to them, expanding the geographic scope of an earlier "Qamani" effort. Specifically, it extends coverage to include the Tapqaq coast and reaches to the village of Wales. In addition to interviews, the team will visit key coastal sites with smaller groups of about 2 to 3 elders and culture bearers. These site visits are important because place-based storytelling and accurate identification of locations often work best on the land itself, where elders can point out features, routes, and contextual details that can be missed in office-based mapping alone.

Administratively, this opportunity was issued as a discretionary award using a cooperative agreement or grant mechanism under CFDA 15.945 (Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System), categorized under humanities and cultural affairs. The National Park Service anticipated making a single award, with estimated total funding of about $100,000. The funding range listed includes an award floor of $64,000 and a ceiling of $120,000, and there is no cost-sharing or matching requirement. The notice is explicitly a notice of intent to award to Oregon State University, and applications were only accepted from that institution. The posting date was August 5, 2015, with an original and current closing date of August 17, 2015, and an archive date of August 18, 2015. A contact for access issues was provided as Erica Cordeiro at EricaCordeiro@nps.gov.

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