Awarded Grants

The purpose is to strengthen Dot Lake Village’s capacity to prevent and respond to wildfires through strategic planning, training, and partnership development, while advancing that protect Tribal lands, subsistence resources, and community health through sustainable forestry and emergency readiness.

To consult with USFS on the Tahoe National Forest and El Dorado National Forest to secure funding to engage in tribal consultation and contracting.

The purpose is to expand MGIHA’s internal capacity to access and manage U.S. Forest Service funding—supporting Tribal-led restoration, cultural stewardship, and climate resilience through strategic planning, funding alignment, and system readiness across MGBOMI homelands.

To support Chilkat Indian Village (Klukwan)'s intergovernmental advocacy and legal strategy efforts to defend our traditional territory, pursue #landback, and assert Tribal governance and protection of the Jilḵáat Aani Ka Héeni (the Chilkat Valley Watershed).

Support capacity building, due diligence, and transaction support for a land return project and enable a strategic response for future opportunities and threats.

Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe proposes a project that retains access to ancestral Tribal lands, increasing forest management to enable staff to build capacity within timberland productivity, management, silviculture, marketing, and protect cultural forest resources.

The purpose is to build Mattaponi Tribe capacity in grant writing, management, and strategic planning to develop forestry management plans based in traditional land stewardship processes and TEK, to enhance environmental health and climate adaptation for future tribe land endowment.

Establish a sustainable, tribally owned firewood program on under-managed fee and trust lands to improve local forest health, support Tribal members, and create new self-sustaining economic opportunities. Develop partnerships with the Forest Service, National Forest Foundation, and Wood for Life.