Awarded Grants

Crow Tribe Capacity Building

AICL’s 2023 programming including the Breath of Life Online Symposium, the Language is Life Gathering, and the Master-Apprentice Language project

This project will initiate and build upon ongoing conservation activities relative to watershed restoration and air quality monitoring for tribal lands. The tribe is leading an effort to remove a dam on our river. Additionally, we are expanding our air quality monitoring network to include cultural considerations.

These projects are to help insure the management and creation on Natural Resources development to have sustainable resources for generations to come. This will increase the knowledge and overview of the youth and community to be more involved with our Natural Resources.

AVI’s programmatic activities seek to create subsistence agriculture through hands-on workshops while utilizing our new television studio and podcasts to deliver business and financial curricula. AVI focuses on increasing subsistence farming while addressing food security and economic opportunities while changing the paradigm of the high cost of transportation of food.

This project will revitalize cultural stewardship, traditional uses, and ancestral crafts associated with tule reeds growing along the tribe's shoreline. We will actively engage tribal members in increasing tule populations and re-familiarizing ourselves with how to speak about, utilize, and weave tule into regalia, baskets, toys, and many other crafts.

Bezos Professional Development

The Indian Nations Conservation Alliance is an Indigenous-led organization that seeks to create a mission, vision and goals that provides value for Native producers and land users and utilizes the knowledge and wisdom of our team, Board, and stakeholders to create an organization that is by us and for us.

This project will help to increase the knowledge and awareness of the Nez Perce Fisheries Department and the work it does to the general public but particularly to tribal youth/communities. This project is intended to provide information and generate interest in tribal youth to pursue a career in Fisheries.

This project will help utilize Tall Bull Memorial grounds to host the pow wow for elders, children, and families and the greater Denver community from all backgrounds and ethnicities and to create an appreciation of the outdoors and increase an understanding of the cultural value of the natural landscape.