Awarded Grants

The project will create new innovative immersion curriculum that will allow students to learn and retain language based knowledge as well as increase the amount of language learners who will become language speakers. This project is in line with our overall strategic plan to increase the number of fluent speakers.

We are about co-creation, about visioning, praying, and calling forward new ways to be in relationship with one another as the world at this moment seems to be taking a backwards spin. As womb-full and heart-full peoples we must call forward vulnerability and authenticity and a deeper healing than we have known. We must continue to come from Love and a space of building connection and belonging together. It is from this place that we are launching our anniversary campaign in 2019. Through this three-year campaign, our goal is to raise $1.5 million which will allow us to: ● Become full owners of our current home space (office building) in Española so that we can offer an enduring connection to the communities we serve ($280,000) ● Renovation and expansion of our building to better meet community needs ($720,000) ● Establishing an Operations and Maintenance Fund ($250,000) ● Establishing a Staff Wellness and Sustainability Fund ($250,000)

The Osage Nation Museum will utilize the grant to send staff to the 2019 Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums annual conference on October 8-10, 2019 at the Pechanga Tribal Resort (California) in an effort to support the Museum’s organizational and management capacity building efforts for their museum which they are revitalizing. The conference will provide the museum staff with the opportunity to build skills and increase their networks in the tribal museum space.

Send two representatives from Menominee Tribe to attend WMAN’s Indigenous Caucus meeting

Training attendees will develop skills in effective community outreach in order to increase tribal member participation in projects and activities. Our team will use the knowledge learned to leverage new resources and networks in the community.

This project will increase Ojibwe and Dakota language use and proficiency in and around our school community by building the capacity of Bdote Learning Center to deliver high quality immersion curriculum and utilize our resources to assist families in building their language skills.

General support grant for Food Summit