Nez Perce Tribe

This grant will fund the Tribe’s work to deploy a range of tactics to prevent the proposed mine. Nez Perce Tribe will work with legal and technical consultants on webpage updates, community education, and awareness projects.

General Operating support for Department of Fisheries and Resource Management - Watershed Division

This project will help to increase the knowledge and awareness of the Nez Perce Fisheries Department and the work it does to the general public but particularly to tribal youth/communities. This project is intended to provide information and generate interest in tribal youth to pursue a career in Fisheries.

COVID-19 Response

Nez Perce will expand broadband service over it's existing infrastructure with it's 2.5 GHz license providing service in areas previously underserved or unserved.

COVID-19 Response

Nez Perce Tribe has been highly successful in bringing broadband to the Reservation as a utility service thought he Tribal Government. The 2.5 GHz opportunity gives us the ability to provide increased bandwidth that wouldn't otherwise be available in our current fixed wireless infrastructure.

Teacher Mentees will spend 1040 hours working with NPL staff and Elder Mentors. Language immersion methodology, curriculum study and development, and three intensive professional development trainings, will be utilized to increase the capacity of the NPL program and to create four new teachers to serve the on-reservation Nez Perce communities.

Collect food prices on certain food products sold in Native communities.

This project will increase local control over data on the local food system. This project will increase data driven knowledge and create community plans based on data collected from a community food sovereignty assessment.

Our purpose is to create a food processing station at the Smokehouse & Community Garden site at Lapwai, Idaho, central to the Nez Perce nation. The station will stimulate efforts in local food production and improved tribal community health by serving as a vibrant, user-friendly center for cleaning fish, smoking meat and fish, processing produce, cooking demonstrations, and classes on nutrition and traditional uses of native foods. The project will benefit tribal members with opportunities for increased self enrichment and community engagement by providing a place for multi-generational sharing and learning, community gathering around food culture, and agriculture-based entrepreneurial development.