Awarded Grants

Teacher Mentees will spend 1040 hours working with NPL staff and Elder Mentors. Language immersion methodology, curriculum study and development, and three intensive professional development trainings, will be utilized to increase the capacity of the NPL program and to create four new teachers to serve the on-reservation Nez Perce communities.

CCPP's Youth Fellowship program will connect Elders and Culture Keepers with Catawba Youth (16-23) so that they can mentor them in important Catawba Cultural Practices. By investing resources into our youth they can become the next generation of Catawba Culture Keepers.

This project will increase the number of proficient first language speakers within the Oneida community by creating an immersion-only classroom that utilizes the current On^yote’aka Tsi Nitwaw^not^ and Head Start “As it happens” curriculum.

This project will help youth increase capacity of traditional plants and animals by utilizing elder’s knowledge and life experiences. Our youth will retain lessons learned from elder mentors through experiential learning and the creation of documents that will remain as part of a library of teachings for future generations.

To support retention of the Micmac language and traditions absent or lost over time and strengthen relationships between youth and Elders BGCPI will hire a part-time Coordinator to leverage existing relationships and resources within our community to implement educational sessions and events to engage Elders and youth.

Our six-week youth-camp helps youth retain Zuni language and traditions while promoting intergenerational relationships and healthy behaviors. Our approach leverages community assets and ensures local control by employing cultural bearers to educate camp counselors (ages-15-24), who in turn, mentor campers (ages-6-12).

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

The project will leverage existing language nest resources to increase grade level capacity through fourth grade, while retaining current parent volunteerism and creating monthly opportunities for citizen and tribal leadership involvement during the nest’s expansion into a language school, by incorporating surveys, focus groups, community-engaged curriculum design, and literacy materials.

The Tending the Wild: Junior Class, project will help youth retain traditional, cultural knowledge related to Indigenous Stewardship methods and basketweaving. Activities will include, the identification and gathering of basketry materials through three outdoor field trip, cultural history talks with Siskiyou and Del Norte County elders, and hands-on weaving workshops.

The project will retain Salish language and cultural traditions by passing them on to children and families, will increase the availability of Salish immersion education for children in the Spokane metro area, will increase the Salish proficiency of students, families, and teachers, and will create new Salish language curriculum materials.