Project Grant 90NL0710

The Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point (Sipayik) received a $668,073 Project Grant award on July 1, 2025, from the Administration for Native Americans under the Native American Programs (CFDA 93.612) to implement a three-year Language and Cultural Revitalization Initiative. The initiative establishes an immersion education model at the Sipayik Museum and Youth Center, delivering structured language instruction to approximately 100 children (ages 18 months to 12 years) and 100 adults, each...

The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Low Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians (CTCLUSI) received a $322,300 project grant award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Indian Economic Development program (CFDA 15.032) to revitalize their three tribal languages - Miluk, Hanis, and Shayuushtha U Quuiich Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw - between June 2022 and December 2023. The funding will support oral tradition protocol development, digital transcription of language materials...

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 Hoopa Valley Tribe to develop family-based Hupa language activities, create a website to archive language materials, support Hupa language teacher training and credentialing, and establish a Hupa language immersion program for children ages 18 months to 5 years. The project aims to create a new generation of Hupa language speakers and...

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%...

The Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California (WTNC) received a $276,460.62 Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Indian Economic Development federal grant program (CFDA 15.032). The grant will support the Washoe Tribe Master-Apprentice Program project from June 30, 2022 to December 31, 2023. The goal of the project is to create new conversationally fluent Washoe language speakers at the intermediate to expert levels among younger generations of...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma received a $900,000 Project Grant awarded on July 1, 2025, through the Native American Programs (CFDA 93.612) administered by the Administration for Native Americans. The three-year initiative, titled "Ne Mi Ta Si Wi Nwi To Wa" (I Want to Speak Shawnee), delivers structured in-person and online Shawnee language courses designed to increase language fluency among tribal members. The project will serve twenty Absentee...

The Shoshone-Paiute Tribes was awarded a $750,000 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) under the Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program (CFDA 16.589). This 36-month grant will fund the Shoshone-Paiute Rural Victims Project, which aims to: 1) provide emergency short and long-term client assistance and supportive services to at least 20 survivors per year; 2) support victims with appropriate...

The Hoopa Valley Tribe received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services (NANH-L) program. The Tribe will use grant funds to record and digitize materials related to the endangered Hoopa language variety Xoji-Hupa. Specifically, the Tribe will document the language, develop a digitized language curriculum, and continue work on a comprehensive dictionary with assistance from the last...

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 from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support the restoration and early-stage documentation of Chiricahua-Mescalero language recordings. Funded at $851,646 over three years from July 2022 to June 2025, the award will advance the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program's goal of ensuring long-term availability of primary humanities resources. Specifically, the Fort Sill Apache Tribe will restore archival-quality digital master...