Awarded Grants

The ultimate purpose is to educate outside of the academic setting, empower, and work on positive youth development in order assist with a building a greater consciousness about everyday decision making. The tools and skills gained will help the girls have more self-confidence help them make positive decisions, avoid risky behaviors and promote an overall well-being as it relates to their development including physical, emotional, mental and social well-being. These will all help the young women set and attain goals while in high school, past high school and help them be contributing members in order to lead successful lives.

The ultimate purpose of the summer day camp program is to teach youth Pyramid Lake Paiute culture through a language immersion program, as well as traditional dances and games all in an effort to preserve and perpetuate tribal culture. This program is a catalyst to enable youth the ability to retain their tribal identity. The program will utilize tribal elders and community members to teach youth fun-filled and engaging activities designed to preserve and strengthen tribal culture. The project will create much needed employment for college and high school students on the reservation while they themselves learn about culture.

The ultimate purpose is to create a curriculum that 1) preserves the practice of Diné Kinaaldá ceremonies to ensure youth have the opportunity to connect with this important tradition, underscoring each student's valuable role within the Diné community and creating a forum to discuss traditional, modern, and alternative male and female roles in the culture, 2) to increase awareness and practice of these symbolic and transformative ceremonies for both boys and girls, and 3) to leverage the expertise of elders and traditional practitioners to create a meaningful and accurate curriculum while deepening multigenerational relationships among Diné youth and elders.

The ultimate purposed is to 1.) Increase the level of respect that our youth are showing each other through highlighting the important roles we each play "teachings of the Longhouse" 2.) Increase the number of youth familiar with and comfortable using with the Suquamish Tribal language and 3.) Leverage the knowledge and support of many tribal programs to create a culture program that is rich and meaningful to the youth who participate.

Our overarching purpose is to develop educational opportunities that honors, leverages, and utilizes local language, culture, and knowledge. More broadly, our project's goals are interrelated and multi-fold, all based on delivering a tangible, positive impact to: 1) create co-constructed, indigenous-led critical and creative learning initiatives 2) encourage cultural revitalization and retention efforts through youth involvement in cultural documentary production 3) re-connect youth to their cultural heritages by providing them a medium through which to explore and express their identities, 4) foster cross-cultural/cross-generational dialogue through film screenings, 5) build local capacity for ongoing efforts in cultural preservation and sustainable growth.

To create a nonprofit organization of Arizona Native American farmers and ranchers to leverage outreach and education opportunities that utilize the preservation of natural resources, conservation and priorities of indigenous people representative of ten (10) tribal conservation districts in the State of Arizona.

PBLF ultimate purpose is to: 1) create a new program using teaching and mentoring of traditional practices for adolescents, and youth; 2) retain traditional practices, food sources, and native language keeping alive culture and identity; 3) utilize the current grounds and resources of the Kewa House, After School Program, and upcoming summer program; 4) increase the participation of traditional native youth (30 ages 9-12, 50 ages 13-21) by providing them traditional activities and opportunities; and 5) leverage the rich traditional knowledge of community members Santo Domingo Pueblo and the 7 staff of Kewa House and the After School Program.

The ultimate purpose is to 1)create spaces for tribal youth in Northern New Mexico to celebrate and experience the teachings and knowledges that exist in their communities, 2)Retain and reclaim fluidity of feminine identity in both mainstream and cultural aspects of power and voice, 3)Increase opportunities for connection to existing cultural teachings through an intergenerational approach. Further, this project will leverage current activities of our A'Gin youth leadership project, federally funded through September 2016, to expand and deepen focus on cultural identity, female leadership, and sense of place and belonging.

The ultimate purpose of the Summit is to: 1) create a well-prepared next generation of Indian Country leaders in food and agriculture systems; 2) retain these young people in the important work of building Indian Country food systems throughout the years to come; 3) utilize and leverage existing FNDI-supported curriculum in the critical areas of financial literacy, food systems and food sovereignty assessment, and agriculture business planning; 4) improve decision-making in this important emerging leadership base for Indian Country food systems; and 5) increase our retention of their passions and energy in food systems.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) create greater awareness among tribal youth of traditional knowledge and cultural values of their tribes, 2) utilize tribal knowledge and leadership as well as expert knowledge to train youth in traditional practices and demonstrate methods for documenting cultural values, 3) increase awareness among all tribes in the Bears Ears region of the value of native wisdom and traditional cultural practices to land management and ecological research, 4) leverage project training and lessons by involving youth and elders of multiple Bears Ears' region tribes in the project.