Awarded Grants

The Ho-Chunk Youth and Families Language Immersion project will create a train-the-trainer language program for Youth Services employees who will participate in, then utilize the community based, game based, language immersion community language events in ten Ho-Chunk communities, increasing the Hoocąk language proficiency for K-12 students and their families.

This project will increase the Tribe's natural resource management capacity and help develop a trained workforce to better manage its treaty territory in the Black Hills that are now encompassed by federal lands by creating co-management agreements with the federal agencies currently managing them including the USFS and the NPS.

The project will create and administer a Language Vitality Assessment and publish a comprehensive report on its findings in an effort to increase awareness and utilize the data on the current status of the state of endangerment of the CHamoru language in improving or creating new immersion programs.

This project will increase Tribal capacity to restore ecosystem health by supporting the planning and development of a co-stewardship plan for the Teakettle Experimental Forest area of Sierra National Forest that upholds tribal values, honors Tribal sovereignty, draws on traditional ecological knowledge, and incorporates cultural burning.

Our purpose is to increase exposure and daily use of the Lakota Language by Oceti Sakowin Community Academy students and their families by utilizing the cultural teachings, thought, language, and philosophy of the Oceti Sakowin people.

This project will utilize/build upon accomplishments from Navajo Nation programs previously funded via existing federal legislation to create a co-management plan between the National Park Service and Navajo Nation. It will increase community involvement and foreground Tribal perspectives in the management of cultural resources at a landscape level.

This project will leverage the Memorandum of Understanding between the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and the USFWS for co-stewardship of the Waubay National Wildlife Refuge.

This grant will provide funding for the annual sundance gathering.

This project will create a unified council of the four Tribes surrounding the Bodie Hills and increase their collective power to protect the Bodie Hills' high volcanic tableland (Tuvogatudu), a sacred landscape. It will increase tribal capacities by jointly producing a co-management proposal to protect Tuvogatudu from ground disturbing activities.

This grant will support honorariums for the 2024 Annual Basketweavers Gathering