Grantee Profile

Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate

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2 Grants
$135,000 Total Awarded
2019 - 2021 Years

Awarded Grants

2021

SWO Pejuhuta Maga Pilot Project

2021 SWO Pejuhuta Maga Pilot Project

$45,000
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Community Partners

Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South Dakota

Funding Area

Description

In this pandemic, there is a call for medicinal plants to help our Tribe to protect, prevent, mitigate and combat COVID sickness but there was not enough available. This purpose is to create, originate, maintain and cultivate 4+ medicine garden areas. This will leverage and provide seedlings/seed bank.

2019

Dakota Iapi Curriculum and Immersion Project

2019 Dakota Iapi Curriculum and Immersion Project

$90,000
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Community Partners

Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South Dakota

Description

The project will create new innovative immersion curriculum that will allow students to learn and retain language based knowledge as well as increase the amount of language learners who will become language speakers. This project is in line with our overall strategic plan to increase the number of fluent speakers.