Awarded Grants

The project will create an inter-generational sharing opportunity between Kha P'o Youth, Adults, and Elders. This opportunity will assist in retention of our Pueblo way of life through relationship building opportunities that focus on gardening, craft making, and oral storytelling. This will also leverage inter-generational knowledge through technology.

The project will help retain the spiritual and physical connection between Native Hawaiians and taro through a series of family based workshops that will give participants the skills, knowledge and tools to grow taro and prepare poi.

This project will utilize traditional Dakota arts to increase the participation of at least ten youth in the creation of their own dance regalia. We will leverage the skills of our adult staff members as teachers, promoting our intergenerational model of learning to retain Dakota arts knowledge in our community.

Sponorship for ONAC 2019 Conference

Sponsorship for hosting Northwest Area Donor Tour

This project will create opportunities for Lakota children to develop a relationship with creation and experience the healing gifts of the Sunkawakan Oyate (Horse Nation) through participation in four camps and activities. Teen Horse Handlers will learn to utilize and restore the role of the Sunkawakan Oyate within the school/community/Nation.

This project retains cultural knowledge and empowers youth with life skills through flight training, Yup'ik language classes, and a culture camp. It also increases the sustainability of life in Igiugig by connecting youth to specialized land-based knowledge from elders and the subsistence lifestyle which is at risk of being lost.

The project will utilize inter-generational relationships and traditional knowledge, to foster youth leadership and community organizational skills. It creates a space for youth and elders to build relationships, increase access to traditional tools for empowerment and healing, and connect to the land.

The Zuni Youth Advisory Council creates new opportunities for young people to serve as community youth leaders and peer mentors to younger youth in Zuni Pueblo, connects them with intergenerational mentors to cultivate leadership and cultural knowledge, and helps to develop the next generation of Zuni community and cultural leaders.

This project will help to retain the Hopi and Tewa language in order to increase the number of Hopi and Tewa youth that speak the Hopi and Tewa languages while increasing the participation and understanding of cultural knowledge among Hopi and Tewa youth by leveraging local elders in the community.