The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $237,400 Tribal Wildlife Grant (CFDA 15.639) to the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska on October 18, 2024. The purpose of this 2-year project grant is to evaluate, protect, and conserve fish populations and their respective riverine, riparian, wetland, and other wetland habitats located within the boundaries of the Santee Sioux Reservation. The project will conduct an in-depth study of fish populations in highly conducive riparian and isolated wetlands...
The Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska received a $200,471 project grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service. The grant period runs from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2023. The grant funds the Tribe's participation in the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), a nutrition assistance program operated by Tribes or Indian Tribal Organizations on reservations, approved areas near reservations, or approved tribal organizations. Through this...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,000,000.00, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service through the Community Facilities Loans and Grants program (CFDA 10.766), will support infrastructure and essential service improvements for the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska. The grant has a performance period of two years, from June 26, 2024 to June 26, 2026. The Community Facilities Loans and Grants program provides funding to construct, enlarge, extend, or otherwise...
The Snoqualmie Indian Tribe received a $115,385 Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 under the Tribal Wildlife Grants program (CFDA 15.639). The grant will support the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe in conducting a pilot habitat restoration project at the Snoqualmie Prairie in Washington state from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. Key activities to be undertaken include restoring approximately 3.5 acres of native Garry oak meadow,...
The Nebraska Game & Parks Commission received a $333,268 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 under the State Wildlife Grants program (CFDA 15.634). The award will fund a collaborative project through December 2025 to help determine the location and distribution of at-risk prairie fish species across Nebraska using environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques. Water samples will be collected monthly at 97 sites and analyzed for the presence...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 7 awarded a $985,358 cooperative agreement to the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2023 under the Performance Partnership Grants program (CFDA 66.605). The funding supports the Tribe's operation of continuing environmental programs and provides flexibility to address priorities such as nonpoint source pollution prevention, water quality monitoring and assessment, implementation of solid and hazardous waste...
The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Tribal Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.639) program, awarded a $199,846 Project Grant to the Santa Ynez Band of Mission Indians. The grant will fund the development of the Chumash Wildlands Management Plan to improve wildlife habitats and the health of species of tribal traditional importance on the Santa Ynez Reservation. The anticipated 2.5-year project will involve new assessments, collaboration with existing plans, and...
The Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation will receive $206,250 under a Project Grant from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 to support wildlife research and conservation efforts through May 2025. Funded by the Tribal Wildlife Grants program (CFDA 15.639), this award will allow the Tribe to conduct an ecological study of economically, culturally, and environmentally important wildlife species inhabiting the 607,000-hectare Blackfeet Indian...
The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe a $199,950 Project Grant under the Tribal Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.639) program. The funding will allow the tribe to expand their capacity for propagating native plants and restoring degraded sites through plantings to improve fish and wildlife habitat. It will also support community outreach and communication on the topic of native plants. The project aims to reflect both cultural and ecological...
The Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska was awarded a $723,506 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families under the Head Start program (CFDA 93.600). The grant will fund the tribe's AIAN Head Start and AIAN Early Head Start initiatives, providing comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition, and social services to low-income pregnant women, infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children within the Santee Sioux community....