Grantee Profile

Blackfeet Tribe

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15 Grants
$537,689 Total Awarded
2019 - 2026 Years

Awarded Grants

2026

Healing Our Land and Our People by Returning Our Relative, the Buffalo

2026 Healing Our Land and Our People by Returning Our Relative, the Buffalo

$100,000
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Funding Area

Focus Area Stewardship

Description

Our project will provide quality buffalo meat to support community health while advancing buffalo restoration. Through education and outreach, we will engage future generations, strengthen cultural and spiritual connections, support ecological restoration, and create employment opportunities.

2025

Buffalo Restoration

2025 Buffalo Restoration

$28,000
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Funding Area

Description

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2025

Buffalo Restoration

2025 Buffalo Restoration

$100,000
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Funding Area

Description

The ultimate purpose is to 1) Restore Buffalo as free ranging animals to their original habitat on the plains of Blackfeet reservation. We consistently lobby the BTBC for additional land to utilize for increasing the size of our buffalo herd. 2) Create opportunities to educate and get community members involved in our restoration movement. Utilize elders to assist in retaining and reconnecting community and culture through buffalo. 3) Utilize our buffalo herd to offer quality buffalo meat and products to enhance people’s health and lives.

2024

Buffalo Restoration

2024 Buffalo Restoration

$100,000
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Community Partners

Inter-Tribal

Funding Area

Description

This project will offer quality buffalo meat to enhance people's health and lives. We will utilize education and outreach to create opportunities to recruit and retain younger generations to carry on buffalo restoration. The project will promote culture, spiritual revitalization, ecological restoration and will increase employment opportunities.

2021

Empowering Blackfeet Youth Summer Camp

2021 Empowering Blackfeet Youth Summer Camp

$15,000
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Community Partners

Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana

Funding Area

2021

COVID-19 Response

2021 COVID-19 Response

$15,000
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Community Partners

Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana

Funding Area

Description

COVID-19 Response

2021

Badger Two Medicine Monument Proposal

2021 Badger Two Medicine Monument Proposal

$15,000
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Community Partners

Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana

Funding Area

Description

This project will increase tribal environmental asset control on or near Native lands.

2021

Badger Two Medicine Community Education Project

2021 Badger Two Medicine Community Education Project

$15,000
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Community Partners

Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana

Funding Area

Description

This project will increase tribal environmental asset control on or near Native lands.

2020

COVID-19 Response

2020 COVID-19 Response

$15,000
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Community Partners

Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana

Funding Area

Description

COVID-19 Response

2020

COVID-19 Response

2020 COVID-19 Response

$15,000
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Community Partners

Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana

Funding Area

Description

COVID-19 Response

2019

Codification and Creation of Agricultural (Nutrition) Standards for the Blackfeet Nation

2019 Codification and Creation of Agricultural (Nutrition) Standards for the Blackfeet Nation

$78,689
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Community Partners

Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana

Description

The project will provide the Blackfeet Tribe with the legal framework to operate as a true sovereign through the defining of safety standards for commercial agriculture production. It will aide in the narrowing health disparities through healthier food production and getting that healthy food into our local delivery systems.

2019

Native Fundraisers Community of Practice 2019

2019 Native Fundraisers Community of Practice 2019

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Community Partners

Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana

Funding Area

Program Native Giving
2019

Native Fundraisers Community of Practice 2019

2019 Native Fundraisers Community of Practice 2019

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Community Partners

Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana

Funding Area

Program Native Giving
2019

Native Fundraisers Community of Practice 2019

2019 Native Fundraisers Community of Practice 2019

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Community Partners

Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana

Funding Area

Program Native Giving
2019

Feasibility Study for the Development of a Multi-Species Processing Plant on the Blackfeet Reservation

2019 Feasibility Study for the Development of a Multi-Species Processing Plant on the Blackfeet Reservation

$41,000
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Community Partners

Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana

Description

Leverage development of a multi-species processing plant as a linchpin to achieve multiple ARMP goals: Restore commercial and wild bison herds and ideal grazing conditions; reconnect the community to traditional cultural foods; and improve economic opportunities for producers and communities through value-added agriculture and nature-based businesses.