Kristy Zaste - Research Fellowship
2026 Kristy Zaste - Research Fellowship
Community Partners
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota
This grant will support Portland All Nations Canoe Family's mission and efforts to preserve and promote traditional Native arts and cultural assets, knowledge systems, and lifeways in your community for the benefit of future generations as well as increase organizational sustainability.
This grant will support The Hopi School's mission and efforts to preserve and promote traditional Native arts and cultural assets, knowledge systems, and lifeways in your community for the benefit of future generations as well as increase organizational sustainability.
Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada
This grant will support Sacred Pipe Resource Center's mission and efforts to preserve and promote traditional Native arts and cultural assets, knowledge systems, and lifeways in your community for the benefit of future generations as well as increase organizational sustainability.
This project will build capacity for Dot Lake Village’s forestry program by acquiring essential equipment and safety tools to support sustainable forest management, stewardship activities, and safe access to tribal lands for ongoing maintenance, thinning, and resource protection.
This project strengthens Dena’ina and Alutiiq stewardship by acquiring forestry equipment to care for Tribal forest homelands, reduce wildfire risk, and protect lands that sustain cultural lifeways, subsistence traditions, and community well-being for future generations.
This project will support efforts to restore our forests through the purchase of essential equipment including a truck, fire pump and forestry saw needed for prescribed fires and restoration purposes.
This project increases capacity for two Pit River tribal forestry crews located 200 miles apart to manage our 3.4 million acres of ancestral homelands through the purchase of a side-by-side to access high-risk fuel areas, essential supplies and equipment to manage forest health.