Awarded Grants

The Protecting Ancestral Wisdom project preserves, maintains, protects, and offers services that better tribal lands and communities to overcome the erasure of the Original People of Texas, the Esto’k Gna.

This project supports Barbareño/Ventureño Band of Mission Indians (BVBMI) to enact a cultural conservation easement on a 6,500-acre portion of their ancestral land. BVBMI plans to use a cultural conservation easement to strengthen connection and access to land and strengthen community.

This project strengthens co-management of Alaska’s migratory birds by fostering collaboration, shared understanding & trust among Tribal, federal, and state partners, ensuring sustainable, culturally grounded subsistence practices and long-term stewardship of Alaska’s vital migratory bird resources.

Our project will support the eight Ahtna Tribes in their Stewardship Planning for lands within the Ahtna Traditional Territory.

This project supports Molokai Heritage Trust in implementing an easement on newly acquired coastal lands of significant value to the Hawaiian community in order to permanently protect land while codifying and upholding existing spiritual, cultural, and subsistence practices.

This project supports the Rappahannock Tribe in developing a conservation easement template that respects Tribal Sovereignty and encourages tribes to negotiate when using an easement for land back. This template supports the rematriation of 200 acres of tribal land bordering Fones Cliffs.

This project strengthens 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 homelands.

This project strengthens Dot Lake Village’s capacity to prevent and respond to wildfires through strategic planning, training, and partnership development, while advancing efforts that protect tribal lands, resources, and community health through sustainable forestry and emergency readiness.