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EXIBIT D libraries throughout the state ($4,542). Mr. Douglas Patinka, DCA Web Manager, will provide technical support for the interactive map component of the project and integrate Memories of Migration with DCA's New Mexico Cultural Atlas Initiative ($3,945). DCA is the repository of extensive collections related to New Mexico's long history of migration and immigration. In addition, the Bosque Redondo Historic Site commemorates a tragic event in history of the American West when, in 1864, the U.S. Army began to forcibly remove Navajo and Mescalero Apache people from their traditional homelands and march them hundreds of miles to the lonely outpost of Fort Sumner. The Navajo call this journey the Long Walk ( http _ / /www.nmmonu_men(s,org /bosque redondo). Many programs and exhibits under the DCA umbrella during the grant period are likely to be involved with Memories of Migration. The Museum of International Folk Art's Gallery of Conscience will be presenting Imagining Nome, an exhibition project focused on migration and immigration (February 2014 - January 2016), and the New Mexico History Museum is scheduled to open a major exhibition, Expressions of Complex Identities: Sephardic Jews, Conversos, and CryptoJews,1391 -2025, in May 2015. Both museums, as well as the National Hispanic Cultural Center, will be participating in the National Dialogues on immigration (http: /Jwwwdlaloguesoni rnmigrptio P.org/pffogra m-m, pdels). Memories of Migration complements and ties together a number of other contemporaneous statewide programs such as the Big Read in 2014 -2015 sponsored by the New Mexico Humanities Council. If funded, the program will feature the novel by Luis Alberto Urrea, Into the Beautiful North, a story about people and places along the U.S. - Mexico border that invites readers to think of the border not only as a place of conflict, but also as place of meaningful dialogue and love between cultures. All funding and cost share of DCA staff for Memories of Migration will be administered through New Mexico Highland University and are included in their budget. DCA will comply with the terms of the grant and all applicable federal laws, regulations, and requirements. We look forward to jreing part of the team working on the Memories of Migration program. rf,'r Secretary 20B -114