Awarded Grants

Project Purpose This project will create opportunities for multi-generational engagement to empower youth through teaching traditional knowledge, cultural arts, and language revitalization skills increasing youth leadership and retention of Indigenous knowledge.

Project Purpose This grant will increase our capacity to host additional Indigenous Science and Traditional Food focused youth camps and raft or canoe trips on the Eel, Trinity and Sacramento Rivers and SF Bay, and help us to maintain current programming on the Klamath and North Coast. It will increase our ability to host field trips and classes related to Klamath, Eel, Sacramento and coastal water protection.

Project Purpose SVBPI Youth Leadership Alliance will offer seasonal camps for youth in three (3) separate age groups. The youngest group will be grades K-3 day camps. The second group will offer overnight leadership camps planned and led by older youth. The older youth (grades 7-12) will participate in overnight camps that include leadership training and marketable skill building. Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) will top the list.

Project Purpose The Atáahum Pó$uukat Temetií (Indian Peoples Horse Day) primary purpose is to teach inter-tribal youth in Southern California about American Indian horse culture, traditions, and practices. The project will leverage existing relationships with So Cal Tribal Youth programs to host nine (9) horse days camps on the Rincon Indian Reservation. Instruction will be intergenerational from Native elder ranchers and guided by experienced riders.

Project Purpose This project will create a language revitalization camp for youths and their language mentors. This project builds upon an event that was initiated by AICLS in 2021, an online Young Leadership Development Conference, that was then developed by a team of youth language leaders into an expanded year-long mentorship program to empower youth language leaders of California Indian communities.

Project Purpose The project will create a cohort of tribal youth that may become future leaders of the tribe by providing them with basic knowledge, skills, and abilities on tribal leadership and culture. This project seeks to building youth technical capacity to they can better engage in tribal governance in the future.

Project Purpose The purpose of the project is to create an immersive and culturally enriching learning experience for elementary students. By integrating elements of language, art, and food from various Alaskan cultures into the classroom curriculum. The project seeks to create a dynamic learning environment that not only equips students with academic skills but also nurtures their cultural awareness, creativity, and sense of belonging.

Project Purpose The project will enhance a structured camp for reconnecting Native youth to nature and our ancestral land, allowing it to become more sustainable and to grow to serve more youth in need.

Project Purpose This project will bridge the cultural knowledge gap between Wilton's tribal youth by introducing them to their ancestral lands and expanding their cultural knowledge of tribal language, resources and practices.

Project Purpose This project will allow for our camp to hire additional staff (Elders) to mentor, teach, share and educate our youth who attend our annual camp. This project WILL allow an increase in the sharing of traditional and cultural customs and beliefs and an overall AWESOME experience for ALL involved.