উন্নত করার কিছু দেখছেন? একটি পরিবর্তন প্রস্তাব করুন।
The Grand Portage National Monument Heritage Center is the product of a promise that took almost 50 years to keep.
The Heritage Center in fall. Photo by the National Park Service
A gift of land, and a promise
In 1958, the Grand Portage Band donated part of the land inside its reservation to the National Park Service (NPS) to create Grand Portage National Monument. The understanding was that the federal government would invest in infrastructure to preserve the area's heritage and promote tourism — and Band members hoped a visitor center and museum would revive a struggling economy and bring jobs. Years passed, and neither the center nor the jobs came.
Self-governance
From the 1960s, federal policy began to move away from centuries of racial injustice toward Indian self-determination and sovereign tribal government. That shift led to the Tribal Self-Governance Act, which gave tribes the authority and funding to run federal programs that serve them.
Norman Deschampe, the Band's tribal chairman, and other tribal leaders believed a self-governance agreement could work at Grand Portage. Even so, it took almost five decades of negotiation and persuasion before the federal government and Congress fully funded the visitor center.
The Heritage Center's museum gallery. Photo by G. M. Spoto, National Park Service
Working together
The Band and the Park Service have always had a good relationship, and since 1999 their joint work has grown to include:
- park maintenance;
- a summer mentoring program for Grand Portage teenagers, sponsored by the monument;
- the annual Rendezvous Days;
- sharing some municipal services.
Maintenance crew restoring the dock. Photo by the National Park Service
The Heritage Center
The center opened on August 10, 2007, committed to honoring the area's history, people and culture.
| Size and cost | 16,600 square feet, $4 million |
| Setting | a rocky hill overlooking the reconstructed fur-trading post, at the foot of Mount Rose |
| Design | pine pillars rising from basement to roof point to the Four Cardinal Directions, important in Anishinaabe culture |
| Inside | exhibit galleries on Anishinaabe culture and the fur trade, a bookstore, multimedia programs, park offices, archives and a classroom |
The Heritage Center at the base of Mount Rose. Photo by the National Park Service
Sources
Based on "Grand Portage National Monument Heritage Center," National Park Service; a work of the United States government in the public domain.
যে প্রকাশনাগুলোতে আছেGrand Portage National Monument
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