Awarded Grants

The project will increase the number of fluent parents in our school community, will create opportunities for parents to speak Salish with their children at school and at home, and will create new Salish math and literacy materials that will support in-school and at-home Salish numeracy and literacy.

KCLC will utilize and increase its Primary (2.5–6-year-olds) and Elementary (6-9 year olds) classroom’s capacity by developing teachers’ skills to be more consistent in their use of best language immersion and Montessori practices to better nurture and revitalize the Keres language, culture and traditions.

The PRACC Artist Mentorship project will provide opportunity for Master artists to deliver education and knowledge to emerging artists at apprentices. The project will ensure that art mediums, both traditional and contemporary are learned and retained within a younger generation.

This initiative increases student centered language acquisition by utilizing an instructor professional development plan, retaining traditional cultural based pedagogical approaches for best practices/strategies of language attainment and retention. The initiative leverages itself on the current Language Enrichment Program at Frank Elementary and the Yaqui Cultural Framework incorporating Yaqui core values.

In the past 4 years the BHWAIAM has proven to be a critical economic asset for American Indian artists and craftspeople in the Black Hills and Northern Plains. To retain this market and ensure its sustainability into the future, a strategic plan guided by experienced people is necessary.

This program will utilize existing/new resources (school garden, hoop greenhouse, Lakota-fluent elders, Lakota-learning teachers, community outreach, organizational collaboration) to provide language immersion for 50-60 children, K-8, advancing LWS’s mission of incorporating Lakota language/culture into the daily curriculum with Waldorf experiential hands-on teaching methods, leading to ultimate goal of language fluency.

The expansion to our existing pilot project will increase the scope of our Ahtna language program. Through the development of blended curriculum and lesson plans we will expand immersion instruction in the classroom of our Ya Ne Dah Ah Tribal school.

This project will create an initial plan for an expanded cultural campus through interdepartmental collaboration while utilizing existing spaces to increase the number of community members familiar with traditional and contemporary tribal arts.

The Nisqually project will help retain tribal traditions through the creation of a Nisqually Lushootseed specific language curriculum. Deliverables include the development and publishing of 84 Lushootseed alphabet, concept books, resources for student-created language books, training of 2-4 additional Lushootseed language teachers and creation of a Lushootseed font app.

The training will help leverage our programs awareness and strategies to help sustain, preserve, revitalize and advance our peoples culture, art, and oral stories and traditions to empower native people as a whole.