Awarded Grants

This project will provide Tribes, Tribal members, and Native-led organizations with information about what and why the Northwest Forest Plan amendment process impacts their interests and ways to influence the outcome in positive ways.

The Menomini Lifeways Institute (MLI) will strategically leverage past Menomini yoU investments by utilizing the new Menomini yoU Language Campus to host a one year language immersion experience program which will increase the number of functional Menomini speakers and create new opportunities to expand community language capacity.

The project will increase Yuchi Language proficiency in students, parents/caregivers, and language instructors by creating an intentional focus on the Yuchi worldview and deep cultural knowledge.

Tohono O'odham is a 6b threatened language on the international "Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale", meaning it is losing users. The purpose of NAAF’s efforts are to increase the number of Native speakers under the age of 20 in the District in order to preserve the O’odham language.

The project will increase language acquisition by providing language curriculum for the classroom; increase staff and student participation in language leadership and training; create opportunities for families to learn the language and experience language pertinent to ancestral Aboriginal territories; retain the fluency of the Salish language by recording fluent speakers.

This grant will provide technical assistance support the Acorn Camp Program.

With the tribal expertise of AITRC and the collective strength of the eight federally recognized Ahtna Tribes and two ANCSA corporations, completing the Tribal Stewardship Plan will mark a monumental stride in confronting the region's cultural and ecological hurdles. This endeavor amplifies the collective goals of these tribes in co-management.

The language nest will create a curriculum for age 4 for the new toddler classroom and utilize caretaker language apprentices to create new viable teachers who will assist in the classrooms.

Nuchu Alive will create new position, Ute Language Intern, at KCA who will mentor with existing Elder language instructor and mentors to make the Ute language program more sustainable, passing to the next generation of teachers and increase student achievement in Ute language.