Awarded Grants

This project will: create habitat for wildlife through the installation of a guzzler and growing crops for local and migrating wildlife, increase the communities understanding of the development and construction of wildlife corridors on their land through a wildlife corridor outreach summit, and support youth community outreach.

This project will create learning spaces for the EBCI Natural Resources Department to utilize expertise from Cherokee knowledge holders (Earth Keepers - Elohi Dinigatiyi) and other Tribal and public land management partners. These activities will increase the department’s ability to connect conservation actions to traditional knowledge and community values.

2024 Annual Luncheon Sponsorship

This grant will provide sponsorship for International Indian Treaty Council for Impacts of Extractives on the Rights of Indigenous People from the Broad Reach Environmental Justice Project.

This project will create a visitor information center with outbuildings for office space for management/ employees of the buffalo program and equipment storage space.

This project will offer quality buffalo meat to enhance people's health and lives. We will utilize education and outreach to create opportunities to recruit and retain younger generations to carry on buffalo restoration. The project will promote culture, spiritual revitalization, ecological restoration and will increase employment opportunities.

Event Sponsorship for Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians for hosting the National Tribal Forum on Air Quality being held on May 6-9, 2024.

This grant will provide event sponsorship for Native American Fish and Wildlife Society’s 2024 Great Plains Regional Conference.

This project will allow Brave Heart Society to hire a Stewardship Coordinator. This position will leverage existing ethnobotanical data and restorative agricultural practices, retain and utilize cultural assets, and enhance co-stewardship and land management efforts and ultimately bolstering food sovereignty on the Yankton Reservation and surrounding native communities.