Awarded Grants

The ultimate purpose of our project is to 1) create opportunities for Cheyenne River youth to learn and develop as individuals and as artists. We will 2) utilize our art programs and facilities as a positive outlet for youth to express themselves, deterring them from other negative behavior. It is our hope that children and teens in our community find excitement and happiness through our programming and this project provides them opportunities to share their art with the tribal community as well as beyond the reservation.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) retain the respect and value for Wisconsin Native arts and culture, i.e. Ho-chunk people and other Wisconsin tribes; 2) increase the scope and participation of Native artists within area, and 3) to build, cultivate, and maintain a model that can be shared with other Native communities. Ideally the project's self assessment summary will help to leverage LEAF's current success in the area of community building through the arts and related public programs with the need to build a solid infrastructure and secure the necessary funding to sustain a healthy and vibrant Native arts organization.

Ultimate purpose is to 1) Utilize the "Arts in the Park" event to expose local Native artists to the potential benefits of developing an annual art festival for Native artists on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation, 2) increase participation of Native artists in projects, training's, and events that showcase their artwork, and 3) create a positive peer-to-peer environment between other organizations, Lakota Funds staff, and Native artists, whom share common objectives during the Regional NACBI training/event.

The ultimate purpose of attending the NAASA conference and developing a network with its members is to 1.) raise awareness and understanding of Native American aesthetics by providing art criticism with a cultural foundation and 2.) increasing the patronage of Native American artists. This project will leverage our annual literary journal as a public source of art critque. Native American writers will be engaged in art critique and their reviews will be published in our annual journal.

The ultimate purpose is to increase healthy eating habits/choices by (1) increasing access to fresh, locally produced food, and (2) creating educational opportunities for tribal members. The educational focus will be on food vs. nourishment, the current food system (local/national) and the impact processed and artificial food has had on our bodies and health, as well as the history of food from our Lakota history perspective. A main focus will be the utilization of our Lakota language and cultural aspects as teaching tools, including the use of traditional foods and how to apply the older traditions with today's technology.

Ogallala Commons (www.ogallalacommons.org), a nonprofit organization working in Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Oklahoma, is partnering with towns or civic institutions to create 70 community internships in 2015. Through this program, motivated youth, college students, and adults can work in summer or semester internships to carry out projects that add value to local communities and institutions--while interns gain skill development, a stipend for work experience, and hometown career exploration opportunities.

To provide support for the ten Pueblo Cohort members during the 6 month dissertation period writing for writing space, meals, supplies, etc.

Native Giving Pass-Thru not previously tracked in GIFTS (2015 Q1&2)

The purpose are to retain the existing land usage practice guideline and enhance the current practice guideline to benefit future producers, to increase in strengthen the capacity and development of the 14R organization to develop future leader to oversee the conservation planning practice, to utilize 14R producers and Padres Mesa and collaboratively develop conservation processes specific to producers that will increase their potential to engage in USDA programs and other ranching programs.