Awarded Grants

The objective of this project is to build capacity for timber sale administration, strengthening partnerships to work with the US Forest Service research station, as well as to aid in the expansion of a youth conservation corps program that was funded under an existing US Forest Service grant.

Project purpose is to 1) retain access to ancestral lands, 2) increase engagement with USFS, participating in decision-making and control of our ancestral lands, and 3) leverage knowledge to expand partnerships with other National Forests to support Indigenous stewardship on lands across California.

This project highlights the connection Blackfeet have to their land, culture, and ceremonies through the practice of sweet grass harvesting, which is used for smudging. This project is through the lens of land stewardship, climate change, and the impotence of Indigenous knowledge.

The project restores forests and waters, protects sacred mountains, promotes medicinal plants, and reduces wildfire hazard to tribal communities and recreation areas through restorative stewardship of the border between the tribe’s reservation and the Apache National Forest.

Through this project, the tribe is developing a thinning prescription for federal lands that results in forest complexity for treaty resources, increases participation in federal forest management, and leverages an existing collaborative that is striving to improve forest structure for wildlife.

This project increases meaningful collaboration with the United States Forest Service for the stewardship of Angoon's ancestral lands, and builds capacity to pursue Forest Service funding that focuses on retaining or re-establishing local Indigenous decision-making control over the traditional land.

This project supports the development of financial record-keeping and grant management systems, ensuring that a sustainable land-rematriation initiative can be formalized to help both the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribal Buffalo restoration programs.

This project informs communities about traditional medicines that are derived from native trees plants found throughout the Great Plains, while creating a framework for these medicines to be more accessible.