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
Related Blogs
Honoring the Sacred
During this month dedicated to women, I want to acknowledge the importance of Native women who work in environmental spaces. It was primarily women who encouraged me to believe in my relationship with the earth and who acknowledge me as I am, which is to say a mixed-race queer.
College Fund Announces Environmental Program Awardees to Restore Native Knowledge for Healthy Earth
Groundwater contamination, erosion, lack of access to healthy foods, and poor air quality are just some of the environmental concerns facing American Indian communities across the United States. Yet indigenous people have long held specialized knowledge that can lead to unique solutions to these challenges.
SEEDS- Environmental Stewardship is an Inherit Right, Responsibility
I recently wondered why being an environmentalist exists in a space we have to fight for, and why our individual and collective responsibility to uphold and respect relationships to place becomes the work of so few. Is it because we have partitioned our ways of thinking about relationships or is it because we are struggling to know that we are related?
Three-Year Environmental Design and Stewardship Program to Restore Native Knowledge for Healthy Earth
Groundwater contamination, erosion, lack of access to healthy foods, and poor air quality are just some of the environmental concerns facing American Indian communities across the United States. Yet indigenous people have long held specialized knowledge that can lead to unique solutions to these challenges.
