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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