Project Grant ASA29982424

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $219,774 will support the Learning in and from the Environment through Multiple Ways of Knowing (LIFEWAYS) collaborative research partnership. Led by the Indigenous Education Institute and Oregon State University's STEM Research Center in partnership with Native Pathways, the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, and other organizations, LIFEWAYS aims to deepen the informal learning field's understanding of how indigenous ways of knowing can be...

This $2,091,864 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings will support the Coeur D'Alene Tribe in delivering a land-based STEM education program for Indigenous youth. The program aims to address historic and systemic racial inequities by integrating Indigenous history, knowledge, and methodologies into experiential STEM learning opportunities. Key elements include an Indigenous Scholars program immersing students in...

This $182,762 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will support a humanities institute at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) that challenges higher education participants to re-examine how history is researched and taught through the lens of people and place. The institute, titled "Towards a People's History of Landscape: Black & Indigenous Histories", will...

This Project Grant award of $119,827.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.163 - Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program) will support Northeastern University in hosting an institute for higher education faculty on Native American, Indigenous, and land-based social and political philosophy. The program aims to provide a cohort of philosophy instructors across the country with a deep understanding of Indigenous knowledge traditions and social/political...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) provided $163,742 to Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc. to deliver the "Ancient Stories, New Neighbors" summer institute from July 24 to August 6, 2022. The institute aimed to decolonize narratives of Indigenous homelands and 17th century New England through a case study approach using Mourt's Relation and other primary sources from...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $329,310 to Salish Kootenai College, a tribal college in Pablo, Montana, to implement the Sustainable Land and Water Resources Research Experience for Undergraduates (SLAWR REU) program. The SLAWR REU introduces undergraduate students, particularly Native Americans and underrepresented minorities, to Earth systems science through a community-based research experience. Key activities...

This $1.1 million project grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture will support efforts to strengthen pathways for Native youth in Wisconsin to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields related to agriculture and natural resource management. Funded under the New Beginnings for Tribal Students program, key partners Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe College, College of Menominee Nation, and University of...

The U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service awarded a $749,117 Project Grant under the Pacific Northwest and Hawaiian Islands Arts program (CFDA 15.071) to Outer Coast in Sitka, Alaska. The funding will support the development of an "Outer Coast Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being Curriculum" from March 2025 through December 2026. The grant program aims to promote scholarly study, instruction, and preservation of Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian arts and culture through...

The Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture (Inpeace) will design the Loko I'a traveling exhibit under a $117,482 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The exhibit will provide Native Hawaiian youth and families an opportunity to learn about loko i'a, traditional Hawaiian fishponds that are a central land management practice, through interactive and hands-on activities incorporating observational, problem-solving approaches. Inpeace will collect...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) provides $149,842 to Kansas State University (KSU) to create public-facing digital resources such as annotated treaties, oral histories, educational videos, and curricula. The goal is to augment humanities education in Kansas by promoting understandings about Indigenous peoples and histories as a best teaching...