Awarded Grants

The ultimate purpose is to 1) create a language and culture mentoring program in Lower Brule which will 2) increase Lakota language and cultural proficiency in youth by utilizing the knowledge of elders and the academic training of instructors and students in Lakota studies. Group mentoring will establish relationships between youth, college students and elders and leverage the existing knowledge of elders, college students and excitement of youth to build cultural awareness and proficiency in the Lakota language. With fewer elders in the community, this format helps retain practices of culture and language knowledge through the community's youth.

The ultimate purpose of this project is to 1) increase access to fresh produce and healthy foods in our remote Alaskan village, 2) utilize traditional wild food sources, and 3) improve food security and create systemic change in our Native village, which is currently dependent on airplane grocery suppliers in distant cities.

The ultimate purpose of the "Ishpaagoonikaa" project is to 1) increase GLIFWC tribal youth knowledge and interest in treaty-reserved natural resources, establishing a new generation of tribal leaders to protect and preserve natural resources in the ceded territory; 2) increase tribal elder and tribal youth interactions by providing intergenerational learning opportunities focused on traditional Anishinaabe winter activities which will result in retaining knowledge of traditional harvesting/processing methods; 3) leverage local tribal elders to provide positive role models for older tribal youth interesting in becoming Junior Counselors GLIFWC's summer "Camp Onji-Akiing (From the Earth)".

1. We will develop a brand new program for the tribe that will provide exciting and new hope for a cultural resurgence for our community. 2. Create role models to their piers to become empowered to ask hard questions to our leaders and cultural division to open up their drawer files and ask for the information that will empower them to become better people by knowing their culture. 3. Youth will be trained to tell e-stories 4. Youth in our project are becoming the next generation of regalia makers, song carriers, cooks, canoe paddlers, fishermen, hunters, gatherers, politicians, speakers, educators.

The ultimate purpose of the Naajimijime Project is to 1) create healthy food choices for Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig students and Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe tribal members, that focuses on creating more traditional meals with locally grown, highly nutritious food items, and 2) promote community involvement that will focus and connect Leech Lake tribal youth, adults, and elders through activity that concentrates on retaining, honoring, and preserving knowledge regarding food, seeds and agricultural traditions.

The ultimate purpose of the project is twofold: retain the Hopi language and create a new cadre of weavers to retain the cultural weaving practices of the Hopi people. It has been documented that the use of Hopi language and weaving as a cultural activity are both in decline. The project seeks to increase the number of speakers and weavers to carry on the cultural identity and tradition. The project can also leverage the personal income of the weavers by teaching them an art practice that is in demand and can be traded or sold to others.

The ultimate purpose of our project is to (1) restore control our Native food system in order to experience improved health, environmental, and economic benefits in our community; (2) increase access to fresh, healthy, and traditional Lakota foods; (3) leverage community assets including our tribal elders, partners, and other stakeholders to help to improve our community's understanding of nutrition and healthy lifestyles; and (4) create capacity building opportunities to enable aspiring local food producers to replicate Thunder Valley CDC's demonstration farm in other locations across the reservation.

The ultimate purpose of this project is to create tribal community smokehouses with mentorship opportunities that will eliminate economic and educational barriers which have prevented tribal members from being able to include safely smoked and preserved traditional foods in their diet throughout the year, and, thus, will retain and increase the Suquamish cultural knowledge of smoking foods for preservation, thereby increasing food security within the community and increasing participation in traditional Suquamish food systems.

Our overall goal is to 1)create young Arapaho language speakers so that our sacred language will be maintained for future generations; 2)utilize the elders in order to transmit and retain our language, culture, and history; and 3) significantly increase the number of tribal youth familiar with Arapaho language, culture, and tradition. Further, our language camps are important in the development and maintenance of respect and responsibility in our interrelationship with other entities of Creation. We need to reconnect with our Way of Life and reestablish our relationships through programming that encompasses the intergenerational transmission of our sacred language.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) create an independent food system in which affordable and nutritious food is available to the Tribal community and, 2) to increase community resiliency through creating economic opportunities for small-scale food producers and non-food vendors to sell directly to consumers at a Community Market. On-the-job training will inspire the next generation of food activists and promote sharing through workshops that encourage cross-generational dialogue. 3) Outreach will increase environmentally responsible growing practices, stewardship of traditional, open-pollinated food varieties, seed saving and will re-vitalize traditional knowledge regarding harvesting and land care.