Buffalo Nations Grasslands Alliance

This project will enable Buffalo Nations Grasslands Alliance to increase the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe's capacity to continue work on their Tribe's carbon project and manage four University of Michigan graduate students to carry out a tribal land focused cooperative research project in partnership with First Nations.

This project will utilize BNGA advisors’ expertise to co-create a regional pilot project proposal focused on building climate resiliency and implementing BNGA’s goals, while increasing overall understanding of needs and opportunities available to Tribes through the Justice40 Initiative.

This project will both create a new financial management system for G4G to manage grants and upcoming payrolls and increase Tribal members’ participation in G4G’s regional conservation planning, leading to greater buy-in toward cooperative conservation across Native nations in the region.

This project will increase outreach and engagement to expand G4G’s coalition of Tribes and Tribal citizens, improving collaboration and fostering co-design of grassland-focused conservation activities. The conservation activities will, in subsequent phases, create new and leverage existing sustainable economic opportunities and conservation projects that directly conserve intact grasslands.