Awarded Grants

Restoring Buffalo to the land, enhances biodiversity. As a keystone species, Buffalo positively influence ecosystems. Educating future leaders on their ecological significance fosters a symbiotic relationship with nature. Leveraging this relationship, alongside controlled fire practices, harmonizes land stewardship and ecological conservation for the benefit of the Earth.

Project Purpose The project will create and retain cultural specific events for youth to learn the Hualapai language and culture and provide them with skills to incorporate and continue to practice in their daily lives.

Our project goal is to support and increase appreciation of diverse Nüümü cultural plants. We will gather ethnobotanical knowledge and create an internal database and GIS maps to retain documentary information. We will leverage this knowledge to train and build specialized capacity for cultural plant monitoring, utilization, and homeland stewardship.

This project will create a clear list of priorities for each Wabanaki Tribal Nation in what is now Maine related to ongoing land-return efforts. Its ultimate purpose is twofold: 1. To enable deep community participation in setting land return priorities, and 2. To communicate to our fund-raising partners.

This project will increase tribal environmental asset control on or near Native lands.

The project will support the increase of the pollinator habitat on Osage Nation land, leverage existing staff through apiary management training, and create a more sustainable tallgrass prairie ecosystem to aid in sound bison management, prevent erosion, and become more adaptable to changes in climate.

This project will create a new Tribal Climate Adaptation Plan (TCAP) to increase the community's use of green infrastructure, retain culturally-significant natural resources and leverage nature-based solutions in a changing climate.

This project will support a Junior North American Women's Association Club that is focusing on conservation that is working in collaboration with Elohi Dinigatiyi "Earth Keepers," Elders advisory group.