Awarded Grants

To consult with USFS on the Tahoe National Forest and El Dorado National Forest to secure funding to engage in tribal consultation and contracting.

This project expands internal capacity to access and manage U.S. Forest Service funding, supporting tribal-led restoration, cultural stewardship, and climate resilience through strategic planning, funding alignment, and system readiness across homelands.

This funding supports the purchase of essential equipment, supplies for logging and forest monitoring operations. Activities integrate modern tools with traditional stewardship values, ensuring environmental and cultural sustainability to support the Harvest to Home initiative.

To support Chilkat Indian Village (Klukwan)'s intergovernmental advocacy and legal strategy efforts to defend our traditional territory, pursue #landback, and assert Tribal governance and protection of the Jilḵáat Aani Ka Héeni (the Chilkat Valley Watershed).

Our goal is to increase the capacity of our staff to be pursue partnerships, funding, and strategically plan for the benefit of our forested ancestral lands and for the Tribal nation through training on grant seeking, writing, and management.

This program supports nearly 4,000 Tribal members while building the Tribe’s organizational capacity to engage with federal partners, manage natural resources, and sustain long-term programming in environmental stewardship through a sustainable food systems.

Our program strengthens forest management and assesses participation in climate markets. This grant will increase capacity, support forest management and carbon project development which integrates our cultural values, while creating marketability through stewardship of our natural resources.