Awarded Grants

Create and maintain a team of local tribal member artist who will train, educate and work with the Nations community young adults and youth for the purpose of keeping the tradition and history of tribal art. This team will be a key component of requesting future funds for art.

Participation in the training will increase organizational knowledge in development and financial stability by providing Tamanwit with the resources to create a strong and successful organization. The non-profit will be able to leverage this new knowledge to develop fundraising plans that will make the organization more sustainable.

Native Giving Distribution

"The only way a Culture Dies is if you let it", "we would like ours to continue" these are the words of the Menominee Elders. It is with these words that we devote ourselves to ensuring that our language and culture is retained for future generations of Menominee.

The Star Boy Camp will retain and utilize the Arikara language and culture through an intensive seven day camp and ten mentorship meetings. This will provide an opportunity for leveraging the Running Wolf Wellness Center and Cultural Survival School by creating a new service to assist the Court and schools.

The project will help our youth retain and increase the knowledge of the Paiute Cultural customs and beliefs through a Summer Cultural Day Camp. Tribal elders and community members' will share their knowledge and expertise through hands-on and classroom activities. High School and College students will be utilized as mentors.

The ultimate purpose is to 1.) Increase the number of youth in the community who can identify and gather traditional Suquamish subsistence foods. 2.) Retain traditional knowledge of Suquamish traditional foods and gathering places. 3.) Leverage tribal employees and community members as mentors of Suquamish Tribal Youth.

The project will take a creative approach to regenerate Apache language, culture and traditional food ways through a week-long farm camp experience and "Capturing the Harvest" event. Through education and hands-on traditional farming practices youth will utilize skills acquired to renew their identity as Apache people.

The project will help to teach and retain Meskwaki language and culture through learning how to create drums, 2-pieces dresses, learning traditional Meskwaki songs and dances. This will allow participants to lean with the ears, eyes, hands and feet.

The OPIO Learning Academy will increase the next generation of culturally trained Native Hawaiian youth healers who will share their skills and practices for the benefit of family, friends & community members to lead them to a better and healthier future.