The Kenaitze Indian Tribe was recently awarded $230,000 to look into stabilizing an ancestral gravesite against the threat of bluff erosion. It's one of dozens of climate resiliency projects funded by the federal government this year.
The late Dr. Alan Boraas , professor of anthropology at Kenai Peninsula College, leads a tour of the Kalifornsky Graveyard in 2015.
“Indigenous communities are facing unique and intensifying climate-related challenges that pose an existential threat to Tribal economies, infrastructure, lives and livelihoods,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement. “Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we are making an unprecedented investment in Indian Country to help ensure that Native communities will have clean air, drinkable water, fertile soil and an overall good quality of life for generations to come.
The $230,000 grant will be used to explore options to preserve the sites, which could include protecting the graves where they currently are or relocating the affected gravesites altogether.• The Native Village of Saint Michael is receiving funding to assess the stabilization of two cemeteries, as well as a school, residential homes and the tribal office building. Saint Michael will use the grant to determine how permafrost degradation is affecting structures in the community.
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