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”.
Caring For Our Kin – Stories of Indigenous Environmental Stewardship
Across our land, seven Indigenous environmental leaders are centering kinship and relationship to build healthy ecological systems for our earth. All in different stages of their journey, they each share a curiosity for learning and a respect for our people, plants, and animal kin.
Grantees
Aaniiih Nakoda College (Ft. Belknap)
Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College
Oglala Lakota College
Sinte Gleska University
Stone Child College
United Tribes Technical College
Related Blogs
Planting the Seeds of Cultural Sustainability
For Earth Day, Student Ambassador Aiyanna Tanyan (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma) explores how cultural gardens, land stewardship, and community workshops help Native students at Haskell Indian Nations University reclaim Native food sovereignty.
American Indian College Fund Publishes Environmental Stewardship Guidebook
The College Fund published “Caring for Our Kin: Stories of Indigenous Environmental Stewardship” as a guidebook for Native students and community members interested in the field. Read the stories of Indigenous environmental leaders and learn about their multi-faceted approaches to stewardship.
American Indian College Fund Sponsors Five Tribal College Environmental Science Programs
American Indian College Fund Sponsors Five Tribal College Environmental Science Programs Program to Develop Culturally Relevant Science Programming to Benefit Tribal Communities and Lands in Northern Great Plains States Denver, Colo.—August 5, 2021–The American Indian...
Thinking Sustainably at Tribal Colleges
For many, it’s a matter of economics. For others, policy. These are necessary components, of course, but thinking in such terms can easily gloss over some of the most important choices we make: the smaller ones we make day to day, often without much forethought
