Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 7, Number 3, 1 Malaki 1990 — NHCAP seeks culture proiects to fund [ARTICLE]

NHCAP seeks culture proiects to fund

The Native Hawaiian Culture and Arts Program has money to award and is inviting proposals on Hawaiian culture projects in the following areas: • research into ceremony and protocol, language and lore; • specific projects to perpetuate ceremony and protocol, language and lore; • survey of existing oral history interviews of Native Hawaiians; • development of and/or beginning of a plan to work with kupuna to document their knowledge of traditions and language; • surveys of written materials available to the public that deal with Hawaiian values or world view, ceremony and protocol, language and lore, Polynesian migration and voyaging, selected plant material and health traditions; • Culturally appropriate management; exchanges with model programs; • Grant-writing training; • National-intemational exchange fellowships for Native Hawaiian artists.

Support will be given for research expenses for practitioners in various traditions The deadline for submitting completed proposals for funding is March 26. Proposal guidelines are available at the Bishop Museum or by mail. For further information, or to receive a copy of the overall program plan, contact the NHCAP office at 848-4111, or write to NHCAP, Bishop Museum, P.O. Box 19000-A, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 96817. The Native Hawaiian Culture and Arts Program is dedicated to perpetuating traditional Native Hawaiian culture and values through research, educational programs and support to indigenous artists and culture experts. NHCAP was established by the passage of the American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Culture and Art Development Act, Title XV of Public Law 99-498. Housed at Bishop Museum, the program is guided by a 13-member appointed board of trustees.