Saipan's Land and Sea: Living Stories of the Past, Present, and Future Grant uri icon

abstract

  • The proposed NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture program, ?Saipan?s Land and Sea: Living Stories of the Past, Present, and Future?, provides 60 K-12 educators an incomparable opportunity to interact with a continuous, intact, and largely undisturbed record of landmarks from pre-contact through WWII outside of museum walls on and around the island of Saipan, a United States (US) commonwealth in the western Pacific Ocean. The one-week residential program will be led by a mostly indigenous project team comprised of educators, historians, authors, archaeologists, and cultural practitioners. Saipan holds historical landmarks that represent the heritage of conflict and colonial aggression which have been met with continual strength. Educators will be able to see, feel, and interact with landmarks through a place-based study of historical landmarks. Hosting the program on Saipan provides an opportunity for teachers in the Pacific to participate in NEH Landmark programming and affords US mainland teachers a chance to interact with a palpable US history that is virtually untold and unknown to K-12 students.

date/time interval

  • October 2025 - February 2027