Awarded Grants

The project will sustain a language immersion program where fluent Hualapai language consultants will conduct language immersion programming in each of the 4 head start classrooms 5 hours a day for the regular school year not including summer, continuing with the efforts made over the last 3 years.

Our project will create a full-time position for a licensed Ojibwe-speaking teacher in Grandma's House to increase our educational success, use our space and age groups more effectively, expand the number of families and days of participation, augment development of curriculum, and obtain licensing to leverage educational and financial resources.

Intergenerational Cultural Programs

The Wooch Ée Tultóow project will increase the capacity of GHF by supporting creation of Lingít Yoo X̱'atángi curriculum and resources, who will utilize existing partners and educational settings to provide instruction to students ages preschool through fifth grade and monthly opportunities and resources for intergenerational language transmission.

KCLC will utilize and increase its Primary (3–6-year-olds), Elementary (6-9-year-olds), and Adolescent Erdkinder (12-18-year-olds) classroom’s capacity by developing teachers’ skills to be more consistent in their use of best language immersion and Montessori practices to better nurture and revitalize the Keres language, culture and traditions.

The project will utilize the already existing afterschool program to create language classes during the week to teach 5-12 year old’s the Cahuilla language. Ensuring the Cahuilla language is retained.

Bezos Professional Development