Awarded Grants

This project will increase the organizational infrastructure to support the development of a health and wellness advocacy and navigation network.

This project will create a strong Native-led organization culturally focused on housing to support the stabilization and healing of Native Americans in Metro Denver. NAHC will provide affordable housing opportunities and direct services for Native Americans experiencing homelessness and housing instability in the Denver Metro area.

This project will advance health equity for Colorado Native Americans by increase access to primary health care, dental health care, behavioral health care, and overall health and wellness through mobile health events and activities that will reach throughout the state.

Bezos Professional Development

The primary objective is to provide quality livestock water to our ranchers which will produce high quality beef and to maintain healthy livestock animals and to utilize conservation practices that will sustain our grazing lands for generations to come.

The calving grounds of the porcupine caribou herd located in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is being threatened by oil and gas leases that were approved after the recent Record of Decision released in August 2020. The porcupine caribou herd has used these calving grounds since the beginning of time because it is free of predators and mosquitos and it is a safe place. However, the herd can easily be disrupted and change their route if they open the area to oil and gas leases in the area. The caribou have been a primary food source for the Arctic Village of Venetie and has always had great cultural significance for the community. Protecting the porcupine caribou herd is paramount to the survival of the community’s way of life and the environmental impact of oil and gas drilling in this pristine and fragile environment is the irreplaceable destruction of the caribou calving grounds, which would negatively impact thousands of people. The elders directed the community to fight to protect the caribou calving grounds back in 1988 and the fight has continued since then. Federal authorities met with the tribe prior to the issuance of the Record of Decision, but they did not consider any of the concerns that were voiced. In response to this, the Native Village of Venetie is using their right as a sovereign nation to file a lawsuit claiming the Environmental Assessment was not performed correctly and that none of the concerns and input of local tribal communities were considered.

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.