Hoopa Valley Tribe

This project will enable the Hoopa Valley Tribe to leverage efforts and resources to reclaim and restore 10,000 acres of Hoopa ancestral lands, which will lead to increased cultural, spiritual, and biological wellbeing.

This project will enable the continued learning, documenting, teaching, and speaking of the Hupa Language during Covid-19 pandemic. The Hupa Language is highly endangered. Verdena Parker is our only 1st language speaker left. She is very elderly, we can no longer wait to receive the language and knowledge she has.

COVID-19 Response

The Hupa Language Immersion Project will create a cohort of 15 Learner/Teachers to complete 60 hours of Hupa Language Classes in order to increase their fluency and immersion teaching capabilities. The project will also create 8 immersion curriculum units to implement in HTEA center-based, in-school, after-school, and summer programming.

This project will help retain vital tribal ceremonial dress-making traditions through a year-long mentorship program that pairs twelve young women with elders/cultural mentors to make their own ceremonial dresses and become cultural mentors themselves. This project will also increase community cultural capacity by creating cultural guides available to our community.