This grant will support The Hopi School's mission and efforts to preserve and promote traditional Native arts and cultural assets, knowledge systems, and lifeways in your community for the benefit of future generations as well as increase organizational sustainability.
2023
First Americans Cultural Treasures Initiative
2023 First Americans Cultural Treasures Initiative
The purpose is to support the tribal, urban, and peri-urban first nation communities in the Chicago region in reclaiming community control of food systems for their economic, social, and cultural benefit by increased capacity for harvesting, processing, storing and transporting finished wild rice to the Chicago American Indian Center.
2020
Menominee Tribe's Efforts to Oppose the Back Forty Mine Project
2020 Menominee Tribe's Efforts to Oppose the Back Forty Mine Project
Participation in this training will help to enhance and expand current strategies for revitalizing and promoting culture and the arts, native artists, and entrepreneurship. The museum would like to provide opportunities to native artists above and beyond the current offerings for artists to display their crafts, including strategic planning.
Revitalize traditional Menominee arts and increase the community's awareness of traditional Menominee art forms and the arts relate to Menominee history, language and culture. Promote local Native artists and encourage a stronger network of Native artists through strategic planning.
The purpose of this project is 1) to create opportunity for youth to retain the endangered Menominee language, 2) to increase youth familiarity of the language as it identifies them, culturally and spiritually, as Menominee, and 3) to utilize our Elders that are fluent in the language as teachers and facilitators of fun and meaningful activities for youth. Further, this project will leverage/expand outreach efforts to the youth and members of the community, such as project volunteers, resulting in a core base of volunteers committed to sustaining this effort in the future (e.g., planning and decision-making, fundraising, implementation).