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Call for Applications and Nominations For SAA-Administered Scholarships for Native Peoples from the U.S. and Canada.

The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) is pleased to announce the SAA Arthur C. Parker Scholarship and National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarships for Archaeological Training for Native Americans and Native Hawaiians for the year 2001.

Together, these scholarship programs will provide four awards of $3000 each to support training in archaeological methods, including field work, analytical techniques, and curation. These scholarships are intended for current students--high school seniors, college undergraduates, and graduate students, and personnel of Tribal or other Native cultural preservation programs.

Native Americans and Pacific Islanders from the U.S., including U.S. Trust Territories, and Indigenous peoples from Canada are eligible for these scholarships.

Individuals may apply for these scholarships themselves, or they may be nominated by a current professor, high school teacher, or cultural preservation program supervisor. The SAA Arthur C. Parker Scholarship is named in honor of the first president of the SAA, who served from 1935 to 1936. Parker was of Seneca ancestry through his father's family, and he spent his youth on the Cattaraugus Reservation in New York.

The NSF Scholarships for Archaeological Training for Native Americans and Native Hawaiians are made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation to the SAA. Application or nomination materials for these scholarships must be postmarked no later than February 15, 2001.

To learn more about the application or nomination procedures, please contact the Society for American Archaeology, 900 Second Street NE #12, Washington, DC 20002-3557, Telephone (202) 789-8200, FAX (202) 789-0284, e-mail info@saa.org