Awarded Grants

The ultimate purpose of the Sunka Wakan Otakuye is 1) develop our Lakota youth and increase their cultural understanding of the horse nation, cultivating their Lakota identity, and 2) create a safe, welcoming environment where they can be supported as they engage with Tribal elders and learn of Lakota language, culture and values of the horse nation, and retain this knowledge for use in their everyday lives. Each year the Sunka Wakan Otakuye increases in its capacity and expands its reach, leveraging donated goods and services, volunteer hours and curriculum development to secure itself as a top NAAP program.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) create a language learning environment nurtured by families, which is not available to students anywhere in the community that will promote the cultural value of generosity and 2) to build a foundation of language speakers and material that will assist in the retention of the tribal language by targeting youth and indigenous first language speakers. Motivated by the Piegan Institue co-founder Darrell Kipp, the S.L.P. is driven by action rather than apprehension.

The ultimate purpose of this inter-generational community-based project is to create a sustainable elder food system model that brings together multiple community resources traditionally available in most tribal communities to ensure our elders have locally grown, healthy food sources readily available to them.

The ultimate purpose of this project is to support community health and wellness on the Navajo Nation through public education, public awareness and advocacy. This project will implement a multi-media campaign to educate and create awareness of Healthy Dine' Nation Act by targeting specific chapter community members, delegates, and the public.

We will provide the development of a client working towards their life goals; workshops with topics such as career readiness, networking, job coaching, educational resources, public school value, and saving for your future. To help young tribal members identify a goal(financial literacy and family budgeting), uncover their individual strengths and understand and implement the steps they need to take to make the goal a reality on a short term basis.Assist students in financial literacy including career paths and counseling to develop an action plan for reaching self-sufficiency along with milestones to mark progress.Individual Financial/Education Plans will be developed for participants.