Awarded Grants

The project will retain important cultural arts history through an intergenerational learning experience. It will also increase the capacity for teaching the next generation these art forms through investing in the transferring of knowledge. The project will create a new respect for the Lakota culture and also an intergenerational bond.

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 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 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 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.