Grantee List January 1, 2008 – December 31, 2009

Alaska
Chilkat Indian Village, $16,700.00
Native Youth and Culture Fund, FY 2008-2009
The goal for the Chilkat Retaining Our Talk by Building a Community of Learners project is continued documentation of Chilkat Valley Tlingit dialogues as they occur between respected Elders and younger language Apprentices.

Dig Afognak is a remote, cultural immersion camp for youth and Elders. NVA operates six one-week camps themed around Alutiiq culture designed to build the strengths and assets of native youth, while assuring the culture continues to thrive.

Arizona
Gila River Indian Community, $14,948.51
Native American Asset Watch Initiative
To support tribal control of water by indexing and digitizing records of legal and historical significance.

Navajo Waters/Seventh Generation Fund, $17,410
Native Youth and Culture Fund, FY 2008-2009
Navajo Waters will work with Navajo, Havasupai, and other Native youth, elders, and community members to document in film our youth capacity-building and public education initiative to address threats to our sacred waters and lands from uranium mining and transportation.

California

Colorado
Native American Fish and Wildlife Association, $10,000
Native Youth and Culture Fund, FY 2008-2009
NAFWS will provide an intensive hands-on indigenous environmental education program for Native American high school students. The purpose is to reinforce traditional Native cultural values and practices with contemporary science to address environmental and natural resource matters.

Michigan
Katikitegon Community Development Corporation, $18,250.00
Little Eagle Staff Fund
Katikitegon Financial Literacy program

Montana
Montana Indian Business Alliance/Bear Claw Development Corporation, $10,000
Native Youth and Culture Fund, FY 2008-2009
MIBA will achieve its mission for this project, which is the development of youth entrepreneurship. MIBA will assist monetarily and provide technical assistance as needed to the eight Indian Communities in Montana with their youth entrepreneurship projects. MIBA will also provide scholarships for two Montana Indian youth to participate in the statewide First People Youth Entrepreneurship Residential Camp, which will help foster the skills necessary for entrepreneurship in business.

Nebraska
Honor Indians Institute, $16,777
Native Youth and Culture Fund, FY 2008-2009
Honor Indians Institute provides classes/training to seminars and lectures to parents, families, teachers and students that will honor Indian tribes and tribal members. Mascots That Honor Indians will train native youth from Omaha area middle/high schools to organize and lead the project; provide resources to write the book, Mascots that Honor Indians; and provide funds to publish Mascots That Honor Indians.

Nevada
Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism, $20,000
Native Youth and Culture Fund, FY 2008-2009
The Emerging Indigenous Leaders Institute provides Indigenous-centered education for young adults through a 6-month program designed to cultivate a new generation of leaders committed to the protection and perpetuation of the rights and cultures of Indigenous peoples in the Great Basin.

The focus of the Washoe Language Program is to ensure that our language and culture is preserved for all future generations to come. We will be teaching traditional practices to help prepare our youth to be healthy, responsible Wašiw men and women to help them learn what it means to be Wašiw. This will be done through language classes, lessons on family values, tribal history and about our connection to our aboriginal homelands. We will be learning our songs, dances and about plants, both food and medicine.

Western Shoshone Defense Project/Seventh Generation Fund, $20,000
Native Youth and Culture Fund, FY 2008-2009
The purpose of the Newe Youth Project is to educate and empower Western Shoshone and other native youth. The program includes intensive knowledge-building internships, gatherings and participation at high level international meetings, strategic networking and corporate engagement.

New Hampshire

Gedakina, Inc., $20,000
Native Youth and Culture Fund, FY 2008-2009
Gedakina’s youth initiatives are alternative educational programs designed to re-establish the relationship of our people to our traditional and historical places, to our first language, and to each other, and to disrupt the cycle of violence that permeates our communities. Circles of Strength is being developed through collaboration with educators, human service professionals and community activists as a proactive approach to redirect the culture of violence that permeates our communities today. History, Language and Environmental Justice is a regional Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge and cultural revitalization initiative conceived of in collaboration with First Nations educators, historians and Elders which is directed at Native youth and their families.

New Jersey
Nanticoke Lenni-Lanape Indians, $20,000
Native Youth and Culture Fund, FY 2008-2009
Healthy Traditions for New Jersey American Indians is an obesity and diabetes education and prevention project for tribal youth ages 5-18. The 7 week summer day camp utilizes tribal community cohesiveness, traditions and philosophy to instigate healthy lifestyles.

New Mexico
Junior Achievement of New Mexico, Inc., $20,000
Native Youth and Culture Fund, FY 2008-2009
It is Junior Achievement of New Mexico’s goal to assist other JA operations in establishing and implementing the JA Native American Initiative in their respective communities. JA of New Mexico will develop a comprehensive program “Toolkit” and convene a “Summit.”

Sunkawakan's Gift, Inc./Partners in Education, $20,000
Native Youth and Culture Fund, FY 2008-2009
Interfaces native at-risk youth with elders, storytellers, and horsemen in a series of cultural and historical workshops designed to increase self image, positive life choices, and leadership skills by using the horse and its role in Native American life.

North Dakota
Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, $43,000
Native American Asset Watch Initiative
To develop water protection polices and systems in order to better control and protect tribal water resources.

Sitting Bull College - Tribal Business Information Center, $40,000.00
Little Eagle Staff Fund
Financial Education and Entrepreneur Development

Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, $25,000
Native American Asset Watch Initiative
To develop better control over tribal land records to enable them to utilize their land more effectively for housing, food production and/or economic development. In addition to obtaining much needed technology to store the database, the association will conduct extensive research on the land base and provide education to tribal members on their rights.

Turtle Mountain CDFI, $25,000.00
Little Eagle Staff Fund
Credit Repair initiative

Nevada
Western Shoshone Defense Project, $20,000
Native American Asset Watch Initiative
To support an asset mapping project that pairs Shoshone youth and elders to map the cultural, spiritual and economic assets of Newe Sogobia (Western Shoshone homelands) in an effort to retain cultural knowledge and protect Shoshone homelands.

Oklahoma
Citizen Potawatomi Community Development Corporation, $20,000
Native Youth and Culture Fund, FY 2008-2009
The Youth Asset Builders Program will help youth obtain financial education, establish positive relationships with mainstream financial institutions and increase their savings toward their post-secondary education while promoting Potawatomi Language Education, Tribal community service and responsible money management.

Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, $20,000
Native Youth and Culture Fund, FY 2008-2009
The Pawnee Nation Juvenile Intervention Center will build upon the successful programming base of the Pawnee Nation by creating a 12-month project that will promote Pawnee language; cultural preservation and revitalization; well; self-esteem; creation of intergenerational relationships and leadership skills.

Oregon
ONABEN, A Native American Business Network, $40,000.00
Little Eagle Staff Fund
Three variations on a tribal entrepreneurship Development System

South Dakota
Native American Community Board, $20,000
Native Youth and Culture Fund, FY 2008-2009
The Yankton Sioux Language and Heritage Preservation Program will document the Dakota language and cultural heritage and produce fluent Dakota speakers. One staff position will expand to full time related to Internet streaming, children’s language program and preservation of Yankton Sioux culture.

Washington
Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association, $15,000
Native Youth and Culture Fund, FY 2008-2009
Youth track activities for one year will allow 50 youth to create at least one woven item at the 2008 Annual Gathering of Basketweavers. The association will also develop at least one new youth program during the year.

To support Seattle, WA based cohort of LEAD fellows for the 2008-2009 program year.

Wisconsin
Ho-Chunk Nation, $12,750.00
Little Eagle Staff Fund
Financial Literacy Program

Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, $25,000
Native American Asset Watch Initiative
To convene a series of meetings with tribal members, the tribal legislature and the tribal enterprises board of directors to discuss the elements of an annual review & reporting format in an effort to retain third party forest certification and to create a plan for maintaining the sustainability of funding sources for ongoing annual determinations.

Wigamig Owners Loan Fund, Inc., $39,000.00
Little Eagle Staff Fund
WOLF Financial Management Project