Awarded Grants

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 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.

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 grant will support honorariums for the 2024 Annual Basketweavers Gathering

The Pueblo of San Felipe will create a Co-Stewardship Agreement with the Bureau of Land Management for highly culturally sensitive ancestral tribal land within the Pueblo's exterior boundaries held by the BLM. We seek to control access to our cultural resources, increase preservation of paleontological resources, and retain Pueblo culture.

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.

The project will create a comprehensive Hawaiian medium training program to prepare and support new language nest employees by increasing their skills and knowledge to better deliver Hawaiian language medium Pūnana Leo program.