Awarded Grants

This project restores traditional camas prairie on Sxemenech, strengthening Coast Salish food sovereignty through youth-led stewardship, intergenerational learning that reconnects community members with traditional foods and ancestral homelands.

This project supports the time of Kawerak's Tribal Research Coordinator to create, distribute, and promote tribal research protocols and the newly developed research priorities of Kawerak-region tribes to enhance tribal research sovereignty.

This project strengthens Nooksack capacity to engage with U.S. Forest Service programs, expand government-to-government collaboration, support co-stewardship efforts, and cultivate agreements that protect culturally significant ancestral lands for future generations.

The purpose of this project is to process and distribute logs into firewood for Crow families, while providing winter employment to tribal members previously engaged in wildfire firefighting. This effort strengthens community, and creates local workforce opportunities tied to land stewardship.

This project supports the hiring of staff to increase tribal energy planning by growing networks and consultation with tribal and non-Native entities outside of Maine and the United States, and the sharing of information, practices, and opportunities with other Wabanaki Nations and regional tribes.

Through this project, the tribe is removing invasive non-native trees, destroying invasive non-native smooth brome grass areas, and replanting the entire 660 acres to a diverse mix of native grasses and forbs.

This project supports the implementation of bison, grassland ecosystem, and food systems education and outreach efforts. The project also supports the management board in holding strategic planning meetings and developing and training employees.

Increase the capacity of the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians to engage with offshore wind planning in the Gulf of Maine and advance its own local community / governmental energy sustainability initiatives, projects, goals, and objectives.

This project will resolve community concerns regarding Brucellosis within the elk herds around Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative at the same time deploy GPS tracking collars or ear tags on the elk to increase the understanding of elk movements along the Wind River.