Awarded Grants

Native Giving Distribution

The project will create an opportunity to recognize the marketability of products that can be produced with the local natural resources and create economic opportunities for tribal government and/or tribal members.

The Pala 'Άchivet Mimexily Arts Project is designed to increase awareness of traditional art forms found in Southern California by training American Indian youth in documentary film techniques. These students will produce a documentary that will add to preservation of traditional arts by capturing techniques before they are lost.

Create a supportive environment for artists by increasing access to supplies for local artists to encourage the teaching of bead work and moccasin making. While assisting our local artists and providing workshops which encourage inter-generational learning, and lastly strengthen the organizational capacity of the Museum through a strategic planning workshop.

This project will utilize our spin off groups to create an apprenticeship and mentoring program that will allow us to increase the scope and quality of our fiber arts education and outreach programs. We will leverage resources to retain ancestral Navajo textile techniques, increase knowledge and ability to teach others.

The Gathering- Tanyan Unspepi project will strengthen relationships with families and artists to begin establishing a process of gathering our cultural arts for a community archive to preserve and transmit the artistic and cultural traditions at Cansa'yapi and the Oceti Sakowin.

The project will assist grazing permittees in the Nahata D’zill Chapter with opportunities to develop better ranch management proficiency, improve cattle health and profitability, and learn good family business management practices. It will introduce ranching to youth to promote interest in becoming a rancher.

This project will create the opportunity for knowledge exchange between tribal community members of all ages. It will increase awareness of Native arts, further instill an interest in Luiseno arts and culture, and retain tribal values for the people. This project will legitimize further funding needs in the future.

This project will create a new program that supports Native artists and increases the intergenerational transfer of knowledge of the creation and exhibition of Native arts. It will also leverage the Native community's existing artistic knowledge to increase economic and artistic opportunities for Native artists.

This project project will increase knowledge about Makah art, history, culture and language. It will also improve and expand emerging artists' skills by transferring knowledge between Master artists and apprentices through 2 lectures, 3 basketry workshops and 2 Drawing and Painting Workshops.