Project Grant 90NL0704

This $365,771 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (CFDA 84.415, Indian Education National Activities) aims to leverage school-based and home-based learning to restart intergenerational Lakota language transference. The grant recipient, Wounded Knee District School, is a federally recognized tribal government educational institution located in Manderson-White Horse Creek, South Dakota, serving Native American students. The...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs awarded a $900,000 Project Grant under the Indian Economic Development program (CFDA 15.032) to the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, a federally recognized Native American tribe in South Dakota. The grant will fund a 3-year community immersion project with the following key objectives: Provide 600 in-person, virtual, and pre-recorded immersion opportunities using the dual language model for community learning through Dakota language classes,...

This Project Grant award of $250,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215) will support the development and implementation of a professional development framework for school administrators and teachers. The framework aims to build...

This $1.25 million project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program will fund the San Jose State University Research Foundation's "Reading Nation Waterfall: Increasing Access to Literacy and Libraries for Native American Children and Families" project from September 2022 to March 2025. Working with the National Head Start Association and five Native American tribes, the Foundation will increase access to children's books and library...

The Comanche Nation Language Department (CNLD) was awarded a $384,242.48 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Central Office under the Indian Economic Development federal grant program (CFDA 15.032) to expand its existing Comanche language curriculum and develop the first ever online Comanche Level 1 course. CNLD will utilize archival audio and video recordings along with minimal new recordings to create five instructional units consisting of approximately...

The Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Indian Economic Development federal grant program (CFDA 15.032) to conduct the "Koo At Latouwx Has Naxsatee, Let Them Be Teachers" project from June 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. The primary goal of the project is to increase the Tlingit language proficiency of 10 Tlingit language teachers through 116 total...

The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation will use a $164,792 project grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Indian Economic Development program (CFDA 15.032) to continue and expand an Umatilla language immersion preschool program and develop curriculum and teaching materials. The program aims to revitalize the critically endangered Umatilla language, of which only three fluent speakers remain. Services include a four-hour preschool with 50%...

This Project Grant award of $449,877 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will fund a 3-year project to document traditional ways of communicating in Diné/Navajo and Lakota communities. The goal is to address the imminent loss of linguistic and cultural knowledge by creating digital audiovisual recordings of naturally occurring language use and associated pragmatic knowledge. This...

This Project Grant award of $4,420,707 from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education Alaska Native Educational Programs (CFDA 84.356) supports the Douglas Indian Association's SHARING OUR KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATIONAL PATHWAYS HAA TUNDAANI HAA YATX'I TOOWU YEI KGWATEE, OUR WAY OF THINKING WILL BE OUR CHILDREN'S SPIRITS program. The award period is from September 30, 2021 through September 29, 2024. The program recognizes the unique educational needs of Alaska Native...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $275,803 to The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) to develop a culturally relevant digital curriculum for science education in dual language immersion programs. The project aims to support bilingual, Latinx students by incorporating their cultural heritage and indigenous knowledge into science education. It will investigate how integrating indigenous knowledge...