Awarded Grants

The ultimate purpose of this project is to create a deeper, richer Lakota language immersion school that will uplift and empower the next generations of Sicangu Lakota.

The project will create one Curriculum Developer (CD) to develop Language Arts curricula and workbooks for the 7th and 8th grades and formally document the curriculum development process.

Expansion of the community garden and health foods classes for tribal youth, adults, and elders.

Firestarters is a movement dedicated to restore our ancestral homelands by relearning land-based healing. In the years ahead, we believe California must decolonize land stewardship policies and practices to preserve the environmental health of all people and future generations. Firestarters is building an equitable and sustainable future through environmental education and advocacy of systems change. Our innovative model centers tribal-led land stewardship of our ancestral homelands as a requirement for the equitable and sustainable health and wellbeing of all people, communities and tribal nations in California. As part of the Stewarding Native Lands program of First Nations Development Institute, the USDA Forest Service Community Forest Program and Landscape Scale Restoration Capacity Grant will support our team capacity to explore the grant programs, identify alignment to our theory of change and prepare competitive grant applications. In addition to technical assistance and support, our team is requesting additional grant writing resources.

-This project will create new material from raw language data that has sat dormant for 50-100 years. -This project will utilize a process that will help Aaniiih and Nakoda People retain their traditional stories in our own voices. -This process will allow us to control the narrative of our stories.

Yuchi Language Project and Salish School of Spokane Learning Exchange