Awarded Grants

The North Coast Native Protectors Tribal Marine Collaborative was founded with the purpose of developing collaborative relationships between Indigenous Nations through effective communication to implement environmental programs to protect the ocean resources. Collaboration would greatly increase participation in designing pollution prevention programs that starts inland, and reaches to the ocean.

Our purpose is to create space that centers the reclaiming, utilizing, controlling and transferring of culturally, spiritually relevant applicable skills knowledge and experiences to coming generations for reclaiming and maintaining, as well as leveraging, Womb Sovereignty for our people , which we believe seeds liberation for coming generations.

General Operating Support

This project will improve health equity for Colorado Native Americans by increasing the housing supply for 15 families, leveraging $4.5M in funding from Congressional Directed Spending awards in 2022 and 2023. The project will address overcrowing and unhealthy living conditions for UMUT members.

This land Acquistion project will create an opportunity for the tribal community to develop, create and sustain, environmentally safe and sound practices in protection, preserving and being good stewards of the land. The Tribe will use proven scientific and tribal information to provide added value to this project.

General Operating Support

This project will work to increase acreage of healthy soils in our operations. In our management of our livestock and white corn, this will increase bioavailable nutrients for our crops and animals, resulting in higher nutritional value in our hay, pasture, beef herd, and white corn.

The OROV seek to convene a strategic Grassroots Water Summit in early June, to cohere our regional and collective responses to the urgency of Dine LCR Water Rights quantification, and to the availability of technical and financial resources for Water and Food security through the federal ARPA, Infrastructure, and Inflation Reduction Acts, and private foundations.

This project will utilize citizen science to protect berries within the Copper River Basin, add value to a culturally and nutritionally significant food source, and will increase the availability of this subsistence resource to community members.

General Support