Awarded Grants

This project will support the Red Lake Nation in planning and developing an agrovoltaics initiative that uses solar arrays to grow fresh, culturally significant vegetables while advancing food sovereignty.

This project will create workforce pathways for Native students by training them in cultural preservation and digital archiving. It leverages the historical assets of the Petroglyph National Monument to build economic opportunities rooted in cultural heritage, land stewardship, and stewardship.

This program restores ancestral abundance by developing a culturally grounded, technically skilled workforce of community members to steward Hawaiʻi’s natural resources. It protects Indigenous knowledge systems while building career pathways in restoration, food sovereignty, and climate resilience.

This project provides support for strategic planning meetings to enter into negotiations with public land managers for protection of our shared homeland and the creation of a federal government to tribal government co-stewardship agreement to manage traditional homelands using traditional practices.

This project will help retain and increase cultural and ecological knowledge by engaging Wôpanâak and intertribal families in land-based learning through traditional mentoring. It will leverage foodways, traditional language, housing practices to build relationships and restore cultural lifeways.

The ultimate purpose for the use of this grant would be to survey and assess areas in and around community and rural homes, recreational sites that are populated and utilized by public and cultural sites that have limited access but still used by tribal members.