Grants

2004 Grants awarded to 13 organizations totaling $50,000

American Indian College Fund — United States

Expansion grant for the Fund for Cultural Preservation and Perpetuation as the number of both tribal colleges and universities, as well as college students

American Indian Institute Institute & Traditional Circle of Indian Elders and Youth — United States

Support for an annual gathering of Native American elders and youth from across the United States to share traditional wisdom, spirituality, and life ways.

Boys & Girls Club of the White Earth Reservation — United States

Support of teaching Native American crafts and language to youth on reservation.

Brave Heart Society — United States

Support for an annual “Coming of Age” ceremony for teen/young girls of the Dakota/Nakota/Lakota Culture.

Marion Institute Educational Training of Bilingual Teachers in the Peruvian Amazon — Peru

Support for the development and publication of a dictionary of the Awajun language to ensure it’s survival.

Native American Youth Enrichment Program (NAYEP) — United States

Support of low cost, culturally sensitive summer camps for Native American urban youth to sustain their connection to their Native American culture.

Oasis Franciscano Rieti — Guatemala

Support for the building of a temascal (similar to sweat lodge) at a traditionally focused healing facility.

Pine Tree Native Center of Brant — Canada

Support for interpretive center to share the experience of a 17th century Iroquois village including dancing, storytelling, medicine gathering, craft making, and more.

Rajarata Praja Kendraya — Sri Lanka

Support for the Kohomba Kankariya by funding 5 healing rituals to help prevent a declining connection with the past.

Red Feather Development Group —

Support for the teaching of building straw bale houses on Indian reservations throughout the southwest.

Selu Circle — United States

Support of workshops on growing and documenting the use of medicinal plants and natural healing practices of the Cherokee people.

Tewa Women United — New Mexico

Support for reviving traditional knowledge, language and practice of Tewa childbearing practices.

Ujima Enterprises, Inc. — United States, Ghana, Guinea, Senegal, and Zimbabwe

Support for a cultural immersion study tour in Africa designed to augment the long-term training and school support goals of the Ujima Project, which is modeled after African manhood/womanhood training.