Grantee Profile

Euchee (Yuchi) Language Project, Inc.

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17 Grants
$745,575 Total Awarded
2013 - 2024 Years

Awarded Grants

2024

TahA Ôk’âfA (We Move It Forward): Growing Yuchi Youth Culture Bearers

2024 TahA Ôk’âfA (We Move It Forward): Growing Yuchi Youth Culture Bearers

$60,000
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Community Partners

Other

Funding Area

Description

Project Purpose The project will create Yuchi youth culture bearers through immersive experiences reconnecting them with Yuchi worldview, spiritual practices, and traditions. It will increase the number of well-prepared Yuchi leaders capable of assuming critical community roles, ensuring cultural continuity and revitalizing our cherished traditions.

2024

zOyahalA KAlAÔk'Âgû: Reconnecting with our Indigenous Worldview at the Yuchi Language Immersion School

2024 zOyahalA KAlAÔk'Âgû: Reconnecting with our Indigenous Worldview at the Yuchi Language Immersion School

$150,000
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Community Partners

Other

Description

The project will increase Yuchi Language proficiency in students, parents/caregivers, and language instructors by creating an intentional focus on the Yuchi worldview and deep cultural knowledge.

2023

Year-end campaign participation

2023 Year-end campaign participation

$5,000
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Funding Area

Description

General Operating Support

2023

Yuchi Language Project and Salish School of Spokane Learning Exchange

2023 Yuchi Language Project and Salish School of Spokane Learning Exchange

$10,000
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Description

Yuchi Language Project and Salish School of Spokane Learning Exchange

2023

yUdjEhalA s'@hA Ô'wAdA: Growing First-Language Yuchi Speakers through Land-based Education

2023 yUdjEhalA s'@hA Ô'wAdA: Growing First-Language Yuchi Speakers through Land-based Education

$75,000
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Community Partners

Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma

Description

This project utilizes four interrelated objectives to create new mother-tongue speakers of Yuchi by reconnecting to the land using nature-based education.

2022

Ôk'ajU yUdjEhalA TahA Ôk'âfA: Working Together to Carry on Our Yuchi Language

2022 Ôk'ajU yUdjEhalA TahA Ôk'âfA: Working Together to Carry on Our Yuchi Language

$80,000
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Community Partners

Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma

Funding Area

Description

This project will serve Yuchi youth and their families as we provide immersion language education at the Yuchi Immersion School, focusing on elementary grades. We will offer community classes focused on revitalizing our unique culture, ceremonies, stories, and land knowledge. We will continue to build our capacity as we learn from Elders, train teachers, and exchange with other Indigenous language programs.

2022

gO’y@thlEnAhEnû TahA hôk’âfA: Yuchi Youth Carry Traditional Arts to Market

2022 gO’y@thlEnAhEnû TahA hôk’âfA: Yuchi Youth Carry Traditional Arts to Market

$20,000
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Community Partners

Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma

Funding Area

2022

Capital Campaign

2022 Capital Campaign

$10,000
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Community Partners

Other

Funding Area

Description

Capital Campaign

2022

Restoring Living Language Habitats in Yuchi Homes

2022 Restoring Living Language Habitats in Yuchi Homes

$75,000
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Community Partners

Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma

Description

This project will address the Yuchi community's most critical need which is to create new speakers and restore the natural transmission of the Yuchi language in our homes by focusing on family based immersion.

2021

Yuchi Language Project Critical Role Foundation General Operating Support

2021 Yuchi Language Project Critical Role Foundation General Operating Support

$25,000
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Funding Area

Description

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2020

COVID-19 Response

2020 COVID-19 Response

$10,000
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Community Partners

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

Funding Area

Description

COVID-19 Response

2019

k'asOgÔTanE dabalA nÔthla: Strengthening the Yuchi School

2019 k'asOgÔTanE dabalA nÔthla: Strengthening the Yuchi School

$90,000
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Community Partners

Other

Description

The project will restore the vitality of the Yuchi language in our homes, ceremonies, churches, and community, by increasing the proficiency of young Yuchi learners and utilizing improved immersion teaching methods. It also seeks to train new apprentice instructors and accelerate language acquisition through the development of science-based language curriculum.

2019

gOnEEnû O'wAdAnA: A New Generation of Yuchi Speakers

2019 gOnEEnû O'wAdAnA: A New Generation of Yuchi Speakers

$90,000
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Community Partners

Other

Description

The project seeks to restore the vitality of the Yuchi language in our homes, ceremonies, churches, and community, by creating a new cohort of young Yuchi speakers through a year-round immersion program. It also seeks to increase language acquisition through the production of video learning materials and instructor certification.

2015

Cultural Internship and Traditional Learning Circles

2015 Cultural Internship and Traditional Learning Circles

$20,000
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Community Partners

The Muscogee (Creek) Nation

Funding Area

Description

The ultimate purpose of this project is to increase the capacity of Yuchi youth to be successful both as professionals and as culture bearers. This project will create a framework to ground Yuchi youth in their unique cultural identity as a basis for preparing them to succeed in any educational or work setting. This project will address the need for cultural continuity by empowering youth to be lifelong leaders in the Yuchi community, mentoring them in making healthy choices and connecting them with a support network.

2013

TahA nO^k'a^fA: Euchee Youth Move Forward

2013 TahA nO^k'a^fA: Euchee Youth Move Forward

$20,000
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Community Partners

The Muscogee (Creek) Nation

Funding Area

Description

The ultimate purpose of the project is to 1) retain the Euchee language as the key to our unique worldview and culture as Euchee people, by teaching it to children and youth, 2) utilize the vast knowledge and wisdom of the last 4 elders who grew up speaking Yuchi as their first language and learned to live off the land through agriculture, 3) increase participation and knowledge of traditional agricultural practices among children and youth through hands-on teaching and learning, and 4) create leadership opportunities for youth and develop their fundraising and business management skills