Awarded Grants

This project expands 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 homelands.

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

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).

This funding supports the purchase of essential equipment, supplies for logging and forest monitoring operations. Activities integrate modern tools with traditional stewardship values, ensuring environmental and cultural sustainability to support the Harvest to Home initiative.

The Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission will utilize legal representation as we continue to uphold rural subsistence rights in Alaska, while also upholding the participation of local people, elected by the Tribes, in the co-management of Kuskokwim salmon.

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.