Tiyata Wan Unkagapi
(We are Making a Home)

2023 – 2026

About The Program

The American Indian College Fund’s Tiyata Wan Unkagapi Environmental Stewardship Program supports TCUs in the Northern Great Plains (NGP) grasslands region to build capacity in environmental science and natural resource programs, land-based research, community engagement, and collaboration. This work supports TCU and tribal nation knowledge, learning, and collective stewardship actions that strengthen and center kinship and relationship, to move towards the health and wellness of ecological systems and our human relatives. A multi-faceted approach to stewardship is what is needed now: it is upon the individual, the family, the community, and the collective to understand our responsibilities and how to move together and care for our homeplace.

Tiyata Wan Unkagapi is Dakota, meaning “We are making a home”.

Grantees

Aaniiih Nakoda College (Ft. Belknap)

Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College

Sinte Gleska University

Stone Child College

United Tribes Technical College

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Our Program Areas

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Computer Science

Environmental Stewardship

Indigenous Education

Infrastructure

Native Arts

The Iñupiat family engagement event was held at the Aimaaġvik Assisted Living Center to celebrate the season with the elder residents.

Supporting Our Relatives