Awarded Grants

The project will create curricula in Okanagan Salish for our primary and elementary classrooms, increase the skill level of our teachers to utilize best language immersion practices, and assist our primary guide-apprentice to achieve certification as a Montessori primary guide.

The initiative is an effort to create a public space where the academic Hawaiian language can be merged with cultural practice, increase the amount of young speakers who can perform Hawaiian roles as ceremonial leaders, orators, and storytellers, and establish consciousness of language and culture interdependency.

The Hupa Language Immersion Project will create a cohort of 15 Learner/Teachers to complete 60 hours of Hupa Language Classes in order to increase their fluency and immersion teaching capabilities. The project will also create 8 immersion curriculum units to implement in HTEA center-based, in-school, after-school, and summer programming.

KCLC will retain and leverage its Primary (2.5–6-year-olds) and Elementary (6-12 year olds) Keres language classrooms through best practices of language immersion and Montessori pedagogy to invigorate Cochiti Keres language/culture.

The Weetumuw School Expansion Project will create a new immersion classroom environment for rising first and second grade language nest students, enabling our Mukayuhsak Weekuw (Children's House) preschool and Kindergarten community to retain tribal families in our immersion programming, while simultaneously recruiting potential new teachers and students though language retreats.

The project will create two intern positions for CLMAP language immersion to further advance their language immersion proficiency skills and experience professional development necessary to pursue Cherokee Language Immersion Instruction. Additionally, interns will document their internship experience in order to formalize the internship process for future program availability.

This project will leverage resources and increase the value of instruction at the Immersion Program classrooms by documenting “real-time” language and culture and create four seasonal lesson plan booklets in the Ojibwe language.

Attending the 2019 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums will help foster strategies as to how our nonprofit organization can better serve and assist the Hibulb Cultural Center in meeting its mission through fundraising and other efforts.

Participation in the conference will increase the awareness of existing organizations in the industry, different funding opportunities, and innovative strategies, for overcoming specific obstacles. The information provided will be brought back to the board of directors, whom will then utilize the information provided to better build an internal strategic plan.

The purpose of this project is to create Indigenous Breastfeeding Counselors (IBC) in Indigenous communities across the state of North Dakota. The project will increase accessibility of breastfeeding education and support to Indigenous mothers and families, while maintaining best cultural practices best known by those respective community members/IBCs.