Awarded Grants

Native Giving Distribution

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.

The ultimate purpose of the "Weshki Niigaaniijig" project is: 1) Increase leadership and role-model learning opportunities for tribal youth; 2) Retain and Utilize tribal youth interested in preserving natural resources in teaching traditional Anishinaabe harvesting activities to other youth; and 3) Leverage local tribal elders as mentors for tribal youth.

In the project Native youth leverage a model curriculum and Native adult and elder knowledge to create 7 new oral history videos on essential understandings about California Indians. The videos will be utilized to increase Native youth's and K-12 students' knowledge of tribes' sovereignty, diversity, identity and contributions to civilization.

This project will help retain Iñupiaq culture and traditional knowledge on the North Slope of Alaska by encouraging youth to increase their knowledge of Iñupiaq culture, delve into a creative space rooted in Iñupiaq values, and interact with Iñupiaq elders who utilize Iñupiaq knowledge and language everyday.

This project will create opportunities for tribal youth struggling emotionally and spiritually with issues of identity, purpose, and place to increase positive identify development and cultural knowledge through participation in traditional Anishinaabe rites-of-passage ceremonies.

The project will help retain the cultural knowledge of Haliwa-Saponi elders by sharing with the youth through workshops and talking circles connecting participants culturally and spiritually to their Eastern Woodland heritage and history. By leveraging existing youth and culture programs, we will reclaim traditional coming of age ceremonies.

"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.