Awarded Grants

This project enhances tribal access to traditional lands and natural resources while promoting employment and advancing economic development on the reservation. A feasibility study will examine land use, restoration strategies, and yield a master planning document for the Lake Talawanda watershed.

This project supports the capacity of the Tribe’s environmental department to establish culturally informed, regenerative, and less harmful economic development by utilizing the natural resources of tribal trust lands through forestry and other agribusiness-focused pursuits.

This project builds capacity of the confederation to restore cultural and prescribed fire for sustainable forest management. The tribal fire service will conduct research into improved soil carbon sequestration which can lead to increased water storage, nutrient availability, and site productivity.

This project builds tribal capacity to create a biochar enterprise using mobile pyrolysis kilns to convert invasive and wildfire prone vegetation into high value soil amendments. Traditional knowledge guides feedstock selection to improve forest health and generate revenue through biochar sales.

This project builds the capacity of the Tribe by supporting a feasibility study to assess the ecological health of tribal forest lands. The study evaluates sustainable, income-generating opportunities that ensure long-term forest stewardship and economic viability.

This project is supporting the development of a Comprehensive Natural Resource Management Plan for economic development and forest stewardship on Tribal lands. The Plan will weave local traditional knowledge with innovative strategies to turn forest resources into marketable products.

This project supports Dot Lake Village in conducting a feasibility study to explore sustainable forest management through selective harvesting, replanting, and biodiversity protection. This will strengthen the tribal economy, support Native-led stewardship, and promote long-term forest health.

This project supports tribal capacity to market forest products for producing log home kits and cordwood biomass fuel from timber. This project will reduce housing costs, lower heating expenses, create jobs, and improve forest resilience through targeted thinning and hazardous fuels reductions.

Mining takes place in rural places which is isolating. The Indigenous Caucus was founded to provide space for Indigenous participants of WMAN to build collective power to address mining and support communities that are protecting water/land/air/wildlife/communities and Indigenous rights.