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§1161z Henry Kuualoha Giugni Kupuna Memorial Archives

Title 20 › Chapter 28— HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCES AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE › Subchapter IX— ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS › Part Z— Henry Kuualoha Giugni Kupuna Memorial Archives › § 1161z

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary may give a grant to the University of Hawaii Academy for Creative Media to create, run, and update the Henry Kuualoha Giugni Kupuna Memorial Archives at the University of Hawaii. Congress may provide whatever money is needed for this in fiscal year 2009 and each of the five succeeding fiscal years. The archives must use the grant to do things like build a secure online collection of Native Hawaiian historical and cultural materials; offer scholarships to students who cannot afford college; support web media projects; make teaching materials for Indigenous students (for example, Native Hawaiians, Alaskan Natives, and Native American Indians); reach elementary and secondary schools; add web resources that explain Native Hawaiian terms and practices; pay for buildings and computers to house and access the collections; train K–12 teachers to better serve Indigenous students and improve achievement; and help college students learn about money, debt, credit, and making economic choices.

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Title 20, §1161z

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(a)From the amounts appropriated under subsection (c), the Secretary is authorized to award a grant to the University of Hawaii Academy for Creative Media for the establishment, maintenance, and periodic modernization of the Henry Kuualoha Giugni Kupuna Memorial Archives at the University of Hawaii.

(b)The Henry Kuualoha Giugni Kupuna Memorial Archives shall use the grant funds received under this section—

(1)to facilitate the acquisition of a secure web-accessible repository of Native Hawaiian historical data rich in ethnic and cultural significance to the United States for preservation and access by future generations;

(2)to award scholarships to facilitate access to postsecondary education for students who cannot afford such education;

(3)to support programmatic efforts associated with the web-based media projects of the archives;

(4)to create educational materials, from the contents of the archives, that are applicable to a broad range of indigenous students, such as Native Hawaiians, Alaskan Natives, and Native American Indians;

(5)to develop outreach initiatives that introduce the archival collections to elementary schools and secondary schools;

(6)to develop supplemental web-based resources that define terms and cultural practices innate to Native Hawaiians;

(7)to rent, lease, purchase, maintain, or repair educational facilities to house the archival collections;

(8)to rent, lease, purchase, maintain, or repair computer equipment for use by elementary schools and secondary schools in accessing the archival collections;

(9)to provide preservice and in-service teacher training to develop a core group of kindergarten through grade 12 teachers who are able to provide instruction in a way that is relevant to the unique background of indigenous students, such as Native Hawaiians, Alaskan Natives, and Native American Indians, in order to—

(A)facilitate greater understanding by teachers of the unique background of indigenous students; and

(B)improve student achievement; and

(10)to increase the economic and financial literacy of postsecondary education students through the dissemination of best practices used at other institutions of higher education regarding debt and credit management and economic decisionmaking.

(c)There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2009 and each of the five succeeding fiscal years.

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20 U.S.C. § 1161z

Title 20 — Education

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60