Grantee Profile

Nez Perce Tribe

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13 Grants
$417,403 Total Awarded
2002 - 2025 Years

Awarded Grants

2025

Nez Perce Tribe Stibnite Mine Opposition Efforts

2025 Nez Perce Tribe Stibnite Mine Opposition Efforts

$105,000
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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.

2023

General Operating Support

2023 General Operating Support

$15,000
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General Operating support for Department of Fisheries and Resource Management - Watershed Division

2023

Nez Perce Fisheries Educational Outreach

2023 Nez Perce Fisheries Educational Outreach

$56,000
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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.

2021

COVID-19 Response

2021 COVID-19 Response

$15,000
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COVID-19 Response

2021

2.5 Ghz Deployment

2021 2.5 Ghz Deployment

$25,000
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Program Asset Building

Description

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.

2020

COVID-19 Response

2020 COVID-19 Response

$15,000
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COVID-19 Response

2020

2.5 GHz Tribal Priority Application

2020 2.5 GHz Tribal Priority Application

$17,000
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Program Asset Building

Description

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.

2018

nimipuutimt cukweneewit- Nez Perce Language Education

2018 nimipuutimt cukweneewit- Nez Perce Language Education

$90,000
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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.

2016

Native Food Price Index

2016 Native Food Price Index

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

2016

Kii Weetes Hiiwes Inim Cilaakt: This Land Is My Body

2016 Kii Weetes Hiiwes Inim Cilaakt: This Land Is My Body

$19,682
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Description

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.

2015

Nez Perce Smokehouse & Community Garden

2015 Nez Perce Smokehouse & Community Garden

$37,629
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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.

2003

Completion of a Forest Stewarship Council assessment of tribal forestlands.

2003 Completion of a Forest Stewarship Council assessment of tribal forestlands.

$20,611
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2002

To particpate in the Indigenous Assessors Training, November 2002, San Carlos Apache Reservation. John DeGroot.

2002 To particpate in the Indigenous Assessors Training, November 2002, San Carlos Apache Reservation. John DeGroot.

$1,481
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