Alaska
Ahtna Heritage Foundation, Glennallen, AK -- Yuul Tene’ Project -- $18,000. The Yuul Tene’ Project will bring Ahtna Athabascan youth and elders together for four seasonal culture camps and eight outdoor survival camping trips. The project will facilitate intergenerational transmission of subsistence skills, language and traditional arts that are in danger of being forgotten.
Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository, Kodiak, AK -- PatRiitatP’Tasqat: Collaborative Art, Cultivating Language, Creating Community -- $19,500. Working with an Alutiiq artist, students will create artwork for a short animated film that teaches Alutiiq vocabulary. Students will present the project at a community meeting and then work with Elders to record audio for the animation. Additional students will help create a documentary of the process.
Arizona
Black Mesa Water Coalition, Flagstaff, AZ – Youth Leadership Pathway Program -- $24,000. The Leadership Institute will identify 20 southwest Indigenous youth and community leaders to participate in 2 focused weeks of training and reflection to assist in developing and refining leadership skills. The Leadership Institute will provide participants with space and tools to develop a certain level of consciousness, organizing skill, & networking support.
Hopi Credit Association, Keams Canyon, AZ – Financial Education Camp -- $19,500. The credit association will develop a week long financial literacy “camp” for local youth, utilizing current financial education staff. The camp will provide incentives for attendance and completion of the camp and the information needed for youth to become more informed consumers by learning good financial habits.
Tohono O’odham Nursing Care Authority, Sells, AZ – Elders and Youth Together: S-Ge’ehogkamc Wecijhemajkame-We:M-- $19,500. Elders and Youth Together is an intergenerational oral history and traditions program providing elders with an opportunity to share their tribal history, traditions, language, folkways and mores through the O’odham language with Tohono O’odham youth. Tohono O’odham youth will document their encounters through video and/or sound recordings along with a written summary.
California
Klamath River Early College of the Redwoods, Klamath, CA – Yurok Tribe Teen Court -- $19,500. The college and the Yurok Tribe will implement a system known as Teen Court, modeled after the Yurok Tribal Court. The Yurok Tribal Court is based on an ancient Yurok belief called Restorative Justice; the belief that when someone commits a crime, they must payback the person affected by repairing or replacing what is damaged. KRECR students will staff the court for first time offenders, while learning from Yurok elders and professionals.
Nevada
Western Shoshone Defense Fund, Spring Creek, NV – Youth Program -- $19,500. The WSDP Youth Program will be a continuation of three years of successful programming. It will include intern opportunities for youth, in particular mentorship under Shoshone leadership and work at the United Nations in Geneva. The Program will also include ongoing assistance with cultural and spiritual gatherings making it possible for youth to participate in a safe and positive forum to learn more about their heritage.
New Mexico
Indigenous Language Institute, Santa Fe, NM – Native Youth Language Project: Ancient Voices, Modern Tools -- $15,000. A 3-day workshop series to teach 30 senior and junior high students of the Santa Fe Indian School to create digital stories using computers will be conducted. At least 75% of the content will be in Native languages. Topics for the films are Environment, Economic Development, Governance, Social Issues, Education, Language, Culture, and Health. Three student works will be chosen to enter the National Geographic Society All Roads Film Festival.
Leadership Program, Santa Fe, NM –Summer Policy Academy -- $14,500. Housed under the umbrella of the Leadership Institute, the Summer Policy Academy is a four-week intense program (one-year with staff follow-up) on leadership, public policy, and community service that focuses on tribal, state, national and international indigenous issues. The goal is to expose students to these issues so that they can become active and engaged members of their respective communities and roles, such as tribal leader, cultural practitioner, program director, or service provider.
Pueblo of Jemez, Jemez Pueblo, NM – Redefining Education -- $20,000. To create and sustain a tribal educational program that provides expanded educational opportunities to Jemez students in multiple areas, thus enabling them to meet – at a high standard – their secondary and postsecondary educational and career endeavors. To extend learning opportunities that are designed to increase their educational skills through tutoring, and academic enrichment programs; develop their social skills through structured activities; and develop positive, supportive adult role models through parents, teachers and community members’.
Sunkawakan’s Gift, Inc., Santa Fe, NM – Indigenous Horsemanship and Equine Learning Program -- $19,500. The project continues to interface at-risk Native American youth with Native American elders, storytellers, and horsemen in a series of culturally based horse -related workshops designed to increase self- image, positive life choices, and leadership skills by introducing the youth to the horse and its role in Native American life. Capacity building and expanded services will be achieved through the addition of therapeutic activities utilizing certified equine and mental health professionals.
North Carolina
Cherokee Youth Council, Cherokee, NC – Teen Pregnancy Video -- $16,500. CYC members will create a culturally relevant educational video and an education guide on teen pregnancy. These materials will be used in school classrooms and youth organizations to inform and educate teens about the real life experience of being a young parent and the challenges parenthood presents.
North Dakota
Center for Innovation Foundation, Grand Forks, ND – Mini-Society Youth Entrepreneurship Summer Camps -- $19,000. During one-week-long summer day camps, youth, aged 9 - 13, young adults, aged 18 - 25 and teachers experience real entrepreneurship, community development and leadership. All three groups become one community as they collaborate to create a town, give it a name, design a currency, open businesses and make civic decisions. The young adults serve as camp facilitators and teachers learn how to bring entrepreneurship into classrooms
Oklahoma
Citizen Potawatomi Community Development Corporation, Shawnee, OK -- SHONYA MBWAKA (Money Smart) -- $19,500. Shonya Mbwaka enhances the financial futures of Citizen Potawatomi youth through culturally appropriate financial education and entrepreneurial education. The program will promote Tribal community service and encourage responsible money management. The Entrepreneurial Education will encourage youth to use critical thinking to learn entrepreneurial skills that support positive attitudes as they explore and enhance their career aspirations.
Mvskoke Food Sovereignty Institute, Okmulgee, OK – Mvskoke Food and Fitness Awareness Project -- $19,500. Mvskoke Food and Fitness Awareness Project engages youth in learning about traditional foods and introduces them to ancient games that kept their ancestors physically fit. Youth express what they have learned via visual arts in posters, educational exhibits and mural art for the MFSI Mobile Resource Unit. Participating youth will have the opportunity for their artwork to be displayed throughout the Muscogee Nation and to participate in the First Annual Mvskoke Indigenous Games Day.
South Dakota
Native American Community Board, Lake Andes, SD – Yankton Sioux Language and Heritage Preservation Program -- $19,500. The program’s goal is to document the Dakota language, cultural heritage and to produce fluent Dakota speakers. The program will increase children’s knowledge of the Dakota language, culture and values; offer children basic school readiness skills; broadcast Dakota language lessons three times weekly on Dakota Talk Radio; and preserve specialized components of the history and culture of the Yankton Sioux Tribe.
Washington
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, Sequim, WA – Ways of the Canoe, A Youth Development Program -- $19,500. A youth canoe training program that combines many of the Tribe’s customs and values into a unique and culturally appropriate youth development program. This eight-week, summer training program involves lessons and activities that teach physical endurance, spiritual readiness, honoring Native values, navigation, teamwork, personal goal setting, safety and self-efficacy.
Longhouse Media, Seattle, WA – SuperFly Filmmaking Experience -- $19,500. Through a partnership with area tribes, the Washington State Department of Indian Education and the Seattle International Film Festival, this collaborative project provides the opportunity to directly link to the Native filmmaking community and build technical skills, while increasing public awareness of the complexity of Native identity. This is an experiential process, which will produce educational materials for use in public and tribal schools.
Makah Tribal Council, Neah Bay, WA – Tribal Journeys 2010 Makah Youth Leadership Program -- $19,500. This program will empower and mentor Makah Native Youth in the hosting, planning and presentation of the 2010 Annual Tribal Journey. It will link local youth with employment, cultural, economic and social services to build leadership skills through this community and northwest regional event in Neah Bay, Washington.
Northwest Indian College, Bellingham, WA – Northwest Indian College Cooperative Extension Youth Programs -- $19,500. The College’s Cooperative Extension Office provides many culturally-based youth programs throughout the year. The Native American Women and Girls / Men and Boys Conference will bring together extended families to encourage intergenerational bonding and understanding, nurture cultural identity, and educate on a variety of issues. Throughout the year, other youth programs build on Conference events, addressing issues including individual wellness, financial literacy, cultural arts, traditional plants and foods, and more.
Potlatch Fund, Seattle, WA – Intertribal Canoe Journey -- $19,500. The Intertribal Canoe Journey is an important cultural renaissance event with Pacific Northwest Peoples. Native youth will create ceremonial regalia for their use. They will procure safety equipment. They will help organize a funders’ tour during the Paddle. In addition, Native youth, the Native community and Potlatch Fund will create a new Native nonprofit organization that will work throughout the year to sustain this important event.
