Dine College (Tsalie, AZ 86556-9998)
Karla Cavarra Britton (Project Director: May 2022 to present)
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Humanities Initiatives at Tribal Colleges and Universities
Education Programs
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Totals:
$150,000 (approved)
$150,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
6/1/2023 – 5/31/2024
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Sacred Dinétah
A one-year
forum series and subsequent digital publication project focused on the Navajo
concepts of land and dwelling.
Sacred Dinétah connects insights from traditional tribal wisdom to humanistic fields and equips students with a sense of agency, and inspires them to address the threats and opportunities facing the Navajo homeland.
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Nebraska Indian Community College (Macy, NE 68039-3051)
Maunka Morgan (Project Director: July 2020 to August 2022)
Ezechiel Brummels (Project Director: August 2022 to present)
Michael T. Berger (Co Project Director: December 2020 to present)
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Humanities Initiatives at Tribal Colleges and Universities
Education Programs
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Totals:
$99,388 (approved)
$99,388 (awarded)
Grant period:
2/1/2021 – 1/31/2024
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Francis La Flesche Digital Resources Development Initiative
The development of curriculum and educational digital resources on Omaha tribal culture, drawing on artifacts and information collected by 19th-century Native American anthropologist Francis La Flesche.
Integration of new digital resources from a collection created by famous anthropologist Francis La Flesche into Native Studies courses, develop digital exhibit with student interns for community members and development of specialized materials for senior citizen participants.
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Dine College (Tsalie, AZ 86556-9998)
Karla Cavarra Britton (Project Director: July 2019 to present)
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Humanities Initiatives at Tribal Colleges and Universities
Education Programs
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Totals:
$99,710 (approved)
$98,900 (awarded)
Grant period:
2/1/2020 – 1/31/2024
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Contemporary Navajo Art and Artists: Identity, History, and Culture
The development of a three-year project
devoted to the study and documentation of Navajo art and artists.
The School of Arts, Humanities and English at Diné College will strengthen and encourage the college’s mission to cultivate Navajo culture and identity through a three-year study and documentation of contemporary Navajo art and artists, focused on enhancing the academic Art History component of the Humanities curriculum. The project will involve both students and faculty, as well as outside scholars and consultants, in three distinct phases: (1) on-campus seminars with visiting Navajo artists, (2) an exhibition of the artists’ work at the College museum, and (3) development of a scholarly publication documenting the exhibition and offering a critical assessment of the evolution of the Navajo visual arts from a Native perspective. By addressing the lack of significant attention given specifically to contemporary Navajo art and artists, this initiative will result in a much-needed educational resource for wide use in Art History courses at both Diné College and other similar schools.
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Red Lake Nation College (Red Lake, MN 56671-0576)
Cassy Leeport (Project Director: July 2018 to July 2019)
Lucas Bratvold (Project Director: July 2019 to March 2020)
Jacob Starks (Project Director: March 2020 to February 2021)
Mandy Schram (Project Director: February 2021 to present)
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Humanities Initiatives at Tribal Colleges and Universities
Education Programs
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$97,350 (approved)
$92,195 (awarded)
Grant period:
1/1/2019 – 12/31/2022
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A Student-Driven Podcast for Increased Ojibwe Language, Culture, and History Engagement
The creation of a student podcast series about Red
Lake Ojibwe language, culture and history.
The purpose of this project is to create a
student-driven podcast that will use student voices to disseminate information
and ideas about the Red Lake Ojibwe language, culture, and history to the Red Lake community, Red Lake tribal
members living off the reservation, and the public. The goal is to enhance
student-centered learning and student engagement with the humanities at Red
Lake Nation College. The content of this podcast, while stemming from class
assignments, will be in the voice of our students. The podcast will be a product
of their collective and individual knowledge. It is a way for students to
actively engage in both their humanities education as well as their Red Lake
language, history, and culture. The impact of a student-driven podcast focused
on Ojibwe language, culture, and history would be formidable in terms of
increased student engagement and motivation as well as oral and written
communication skills.
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College of the Muscogee Nation (Okmulgee, OK 74447-2520)
Monte Randall (Project Director: July 2018 to November 2020)
Mackie Moore (Project Director: November 2020 to December 2022)
Mekko Tyner (Co Project Director: November 2020 to December 2022)
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Humanities Initiatives at Tribal Colleges and Universities
Education Programs
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Totals:
$100,000 (approved)
$100,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
1/1/2019 – 12/31/2021
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Field Lab in Mvskoke Culture
The revision of a course on Mvskoke culture that
will culminate in a travel-study trip to the original homelands of the Muscogee
people in the southeastern area of the United States.
The College of the Muscogee Nation proposes a
two-year Humanities
initiative to combine classroom lecture with a travel
study to the original homelands of the Muscogee (Creek) people. Students
enrolled in the MVSK 2343: Field Lab in Mvskoke Culture will have classroom
instruction and complete the course with a trip to the traditional and
historical sites significant to the Mvskoke. By redesigning the curriculum during
the first two trimesters of year one, CMN will strengthen the humanities focus
in this course and provide new experiences for students enrolled in the course.
As the humanities focus for this course increases, the planning team will expand
collections of Mvskoke (Creek) documents, oral histories, literature, and media
resources to support the Field Lab in Mvskoke Culture and other courses on the
CMN campus.
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Blackfeet Community College (Browning, MT 59417-5146)
Sterling Schildt (Project Director: June 2017 to September 2018)
Jim Peterson (Project Director: September 2018 to present)
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Humanities Initiatives at Tribal Colleges and Universities
Education Programs
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Totals:
$101,200 (approved)
$97,812 (awarded)
Grant period:
1/1/2018 – 12/31/2021
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Enhancing Curriculum with Blackfeet Language and Culture
A two-year project to record Piikani-speaking elders
and incorporate interviews into liberal arts courses at Blackfeet Community
College.
In an effort to bolster support for the storytelling tradition and language preservation on the Blackfeet nation, Blackfeet Community College (BCC) proposes a three-phase initiative that seeks to 1) document fluent language speakers, 2) translate, archive and organize their messages according to theme, and 3) integrate this work into units of study accessible by all BCC students as a part of their coursework. The first of these objectives will be completed in the first year by directly interviewing key Piikani speakers. Through planning general prompts and questions ahead of time, these interviews will be organized, and the first year will mainly be devoted to collecting and documenting this information. The second year will be focused on translating and organizing interview content into 60 concepts within four thematic units to be studied at BCC as well as integrating the archived, translated interviews into the BCC Liberal Arts curriculum.
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