General Funding Proposal: Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association Incorporation

General Funding Proposal: Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association Incorporation

The goals of the Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association Incorporated is to insure the protection and preservation of Native American graves, cemeteries, burial grounds and ceremonial sites as well as places of historical, religious and archaeological interest.

U.C. Davis Special Collections

Humboldt State Special Collections

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English

56 Pages

D-334 David Risling Papers 7282
Box 42

The Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association (NICPA) is an incorporated, non-profit membership organization established for the protection and preservation of Native American graves, cemeteries, burial grounds and ceremonial sites. Its membership is established on both individual and community chapter bases and has significant representation throughout Humboldt, Del Norte and Siskiyou Counties of Northwestern California. NICPA's Board of Directors are democratically elected at the annual membership meeting and serve one-year term of office .

Since its inception in 1970, the Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association has provided many needed services to the American Indian communities of the Northern California region and has endeavored to accomplish the following programmatic objectives:
1. The protection of Native American cemeteries, burial grounds and ceremonial sites as well as places of Indian historical, religious and archaeological interest.
2. The preservation of Native American cemeteries and burial grounds as peaceful and final resting places for the relatives and ancestors of Indian people of Northwestern California.
3. The prevention of further excavation, degradation
or disturbance ·of any form to American Indian burial grounds, cemeteries and places of Indian historical, religious and archaeological interest.
4. To facilitate a systematic method of educating the non-Indian public to the great indignities suffered by Native American people and to the utmost importance of protecting and preserving their paleontologist, archaeological and historical past.
5. To obtain appropriate funding allocations from state, federal and other sources to purchase and/or preserve land on which Indian cemeteries lie, and accordingly, to see that the same respect is provided to Native American burial grounds as is afforded non-Indian cemeteries.
6. To obtain appropriate funding allocations from state, federal and other sources, so that ceremonial, religious or traditional areas of significant importance may be purchased and/or preserved for continued religious use by Native American people.

Pg. 1- 5 Orientation
Pg. 6- 11 Organization
Pg. 12- 22 Archaeological Review
Pg. 23 Bibliography
Pg. 24 Statement of Problem
Pg. 27 Program
Pg. 29 Budget
Pg. 30 Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, Inc., Resumes

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