Awarded Grants

Our projects will create new grasslands where croplands currently exist and retain existing habitat that could be destroyed. It will create connectivity between existing native grasslands and retain connectivity of unique habitat. This project will leverage funding from other partners and increase the key habitats that exists on the reservation.

This project will increase outreach and engagement to expand G4G’s coalition of Tribes and Tribal citizens, improving collaboration and fostering co-design of grassland-focused conservation activities. The conservation activities will, in subsequent phases, create new and leverage existing sustainable economic opportunities and conservation projects that directly conserve intact grasslands.

The purpose of the Phežúta Garden Project is to create an accessible space for community members to gather and learn about traditional medicines. By planting within tribal communities, elders, youth and teachers will have increased access to traditional medicines, thus retaining Traditional Lakota Ecological Knowledge and increasing native grassland preservation.