Awarded Grants

Building a Jiiman creates an opportunity for Youth and Elders to work together in order to restore, retain, and, document this cultural tradition for future generations. Furthermore, this project will leverage the relationship between LTBB elders and youth to preserve our traditional ways of sharing, increasing our ancestral knowledge.

This project will increase Leadership and Cultural skills among the Inupiaq Youth of Kiana, Alaska, through mentoring and direct training. Through this project, youth will develop skills to increase empowerment and resilience as a result of greater knowledge, cultural expertise and confidence. Youth will further develop as Inupiaq Leaders.

Project will increase self-esteem and sustainable sense of pride in RSIC youth through building family trees and participating in cultural and leadership activities to cultivate a strong sense of cultural identity. Our community will be strengthened by leveraging family and cultural roots that nourish our Tribe to flourish and grow.

This project will increase tribal environmental asset control on or near Native lands.

The Art of Healing will help our Tribal Youth retain their cultural and traditional knowledge through youth-elder workshops focused on History and Culture. In doing so it will create a model in which youth will be empowered to "know thyself/heal thyself" with the assistance of the greater Tribal Community.

Sponsorship for hosting Northwest Area Donor Tour

The seven day fire will be a newly developed program for youth to heal from intergenerational issues. It will offer daily immersion in the Haudenosaunee culture and utilizing Mohawk language to demonstrate their place within their clan, nation, confederacy and creation while also ensuring mental, emotional, physical and spiritual wellbeing.

The MYCAM project will create a cultural arts mentoring curriculum focused on strengthening traditional knowledge, increasing cultural participation, and building resilience and protective factors in youth. This curriculum will utilize intergenerational relationships to deepen cultural knowledge and practices for future generations.

The project will increase Native youth leadership skills and self-esteem by equipping participants with culturally-grounded wellness and leadership knowledge during a weekend-long training session. The session will create a framework that we'll use to shape the expansion of our full program in 2020 to serve youth councils across our region.

Sponsorship for hosting Northwest Area Donor Tour