Awarded Grants

Our project will strengthen SM’s organizational capacity through strategic planning, staff development, and travel support—ensuring our Native-led nonprofit can sustain and scale programs in food sovereignty, renewable energy, and climate resilience to serve Molokai’s community for generations.

This project will support the use of conservation easements to permanently protect the subsistence and conservation values of approximately 80,000 acres owned by Igiugig Native Corporation. The acres identified for protection are of both subsistence and cultural significance to the Tribe.

The Protecting Ancestral Wisdom project will preserve, maintain, protect and offer services that better our tribal lands and communities to overcome the erasure of the Original People of Texas - the Esto’k Gna.

The ultimate purpose is to strengthen our organizational infrastructure to sustain and grow programming rooted in Lakota values, ensuring long-term capacity to support community priorities in land stewardship, youth leadership, and cultural revitalization across our homelands.