Village Of DOT Lake

Village of DOT Lake, operating as DOT Lake Village Council, is a federally recognized Alaska Native tribe based in Fairbanks that receives federal grants (rather than contracts) for victim services, behavioral health, youth programming, cultural preservation, and tribal justice capacity-building. The entity is structured as a tribal government (child entity under the State of Alaska for administrative purposes) and has received 44 prime grant awards totaling $15.2 million obligated across federal sources since 2010, with recent activity concentrated in fiscal years 2023–2025.

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (14 awards) and the Department of Justice dominate the funding portfolio. Within DOJ, the Office on Violence Against Women (5 awards) and the Office of Justice Programs—which encompasses the Victims of Crime office (6 awards) and Bureau of Justice Assistance (3 awards)—are primary customers. The Institute of Museum and Library Services provides a secondary stream (4 awards). These five agencies account for 68% of all awards. Other grantor agencies with recent activity include the Department of Energy (formula grants for broadband and electrical grid resilience), the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (broadband subsidy and device distribution), and the EPA Region 10 (solid waste management and environmental planning). A $1.5 million 60-month Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction Implementation grant from the Office on Violence Against Women (awarded October 2023, running through September 2028) anchors the tribal justice portfolio; it funds a project director, manager, law enforcement officer, and behavioral health professional to exercise tribal criminal jurisdiction over non-Indian perpetrators of domestic violence and related crimes, and to strengthen the tribal court system.

Victim services and violence-prevention programming form the core capability footprint. The tribe holds multiple concurrent awards from the Office on Violence Against Women: a $475,000 Culturally and Linguistically Specific Services grant (awarded August 2026, through July 2029) to expand the existing Teejuh Behavioral Health program and establish a Sexual Assault Response Team; a $532,624 Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program grant (awarded January 2026, through December 2028) for a Mobile Sexual Assault Response Program delivering 24/7 crisis intervention, accompaniment, and advocacy services; and a second-generation domestic violence implementation grant (October 2023, through September 2027). The Victims of Crime office has funded recurring Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside awards ($347,240 for 2023–2025; $219,402 for 2025–2026). The Administration for Children and Families supports youth and family safety through the Family Violence Prevention and Services Program (formula grants recurring in FY 2023, 2024, and 2025) and the Title V Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program ($212,990, September 2025 through September 2027), which delivers evidence-informed sexual risk avoidance curriculum to youth ages 10–19 across DOT Lake Village and surrounding Alaska Native communities. The Bureau of Justice Assistance funds juvenile treatment courts ($400,000, October 2025 through September 2030) and youth crime prevention programming ($546,353 Tribal Youth Program grant, October 2025 through September 2030, to employ a Youth Coordinator/Educator facilitating "Lunch with the Elders" and annual Culture Camp addressing missing and murdered Indigenous persons and domestic violence).

The tribe also holds library and cultural preservation awards from the Institute of Museum and Library Services: a $150,000 Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services grant (October 2025 through September 2027) supporting youth programming, culture camp integration, and digitized Upper Tanana Athabascan language resources; and a smaller Native American Library Services Basics grant (August 2025 through July 2026). The Department of Energy has provided a formula grant for home energy efficiency rebates and a multiagency grant stream for broadband infrastructure under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The tribe acts as prime recipient on all major awards and has received three sub-grant awards (environmental justice planning through Philanthropy Northwest in August 2025, state cybersecurity grant pass-through in October 2024, and emergency housing assistance through the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center in January 2024). Five awards carrying combined value in the next twenty-four months face ultimate completion and potential recompete.