Awarded Grants

The project will create a coherent Dakota/Lakota Pre-K immersion curriculum, utilizing age-appropriate language standards, and leveraging existing instructional materials to develop a complete framework and lesson script for teachers. The project will help retain the tribal language and increase access to high quality learning and teaching resources.

This code will help us retain our current food sovereignty assets that the Lummi Nation manages on our land and waters. In addition, the Lummi Indian Business Council will create a utilize this code/ policy development to support and create compliance within the exterior boundaries of the Lummi Nation.

General support for community/youth ceremonies

Participation in the training will help our organization focus our energy and resources toward a common set of priorities and goals to effectively pursue our mission to help Zuni youth grow into strong and healthy adults connected to their Zuni heritage.

Crow Language Consortium will create more curricula to fulfill the needs of Chickadee Lodge. This project leverages CLC's existing Crow Summer Institute to provide pedagogical training. The Natural World book series and training will increase student fluency in Crow.

The project will restore the vitality of the Yuchi language in our homes, ceremonies, churches, and community, by increasing the proficiency of young Yuchi learners and utilizing improved immersion teaching methods. It also seeks to train new apprentice instructors and accelerate language acquisition through the development of science-based language curriculum.

This project will increase the community's opportunity to access to healthy foods and retain traditional ecological and cultural knowledge by working with elders and teaching and involving our youth so that we can prepare them to take on these responsibilities in the future.

The project will create the foundation of a Yurok food sovereignty division to retain traditional knowledge, utilize traditions, increase access to nutrition, control food harvested, leveraging volunteer experts. Creating: cultivating food sovereignty Retain:traditional knowledge,nutritional Utilize:natural resources, tribal members Control:healthy eating,harvest,how we grow Increase:nutritional, cultural, sustainability; access Leverage:volunteer Yurok food experts

The project will provide the Blackfeet Tribe with the legal framework to operate as a true sovereign through the defining of safety standards for commercial agriculture production. It will aide in the narrowing health disparities through healthier food production and getting that healthy food into our local delivery systems.

The project will create strong internal control by identifying and utilizing the core objectives of management and establish leadership succession that supports the success and progression of Nkwusm schools mission.