Awarded Grants

This project restores traditional camas prairie on Sxemenech, strengthening Coast Salish food sovereignty through youth-led stewardship, intergenerational learning that reconnects community members with traditional foods and ancestral homelands.

Our project will support the time of Kawerak's Tribal Research Coordinator create, distribute, and promote the Tribal Research Protocols and the newly developed Research Priorities of Kawerak-region Tribes to enhance Tribal Research Sovereignty..

The ultimate purpose is to strengthen Nooksack internal capacity to engage with USFS programs; expand government-to-government collaboration; and support co-stewardship and future partnership agreements that protect culturally significant ancestral lands for future generations.

The purpose of this project is to process and distribute logs into firewood for Crow families, while providing winter employment to tribal members previously engaged in wildfire firefighting. This effort strengthens community, and creates local workforce opportunities tied to land stewardship.

Increase the capacity of the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians to engage with offshore wind planning in the Gulf of Maine and advance its own local community / governmental energy sustainability initiatives, projects, goals, and objectives.

Our project would resolve community concerns regarding Brucellosis within the elk herds around Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative at the same time deploy GPS tracking collars or ear tags on the elk to increase the understanding of elk movements along the Wind River.

This project will support hiring a staff position to increase tribal energy planning by growing networks and consultation with tribal and non-native entities outside of Maine and the United States and sharing information, practices, and opportunities with other Wabanaki Nations and regional tribes.