National Endowment
for the Humanities Grant
1997-Ongoing
About The Program
American Indian communities face the risk of losing their traditional arts, tribal languages, and cultural knowledge. Preservation and restoration grant programming plays an important role for Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) and the students and communities they serve because it offers the opportunity to protect Native culture, language, and traditions. The American Indian College Fund offers two types of cultural preservation grants: the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant and the Anheuser Busch Foundation Cultural Preservation Grant.
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
The College Fund was awarded the Challenge Grant in 1993 by the National Endowment for the Humanities which led to the establishment of the NEH Cultural Preservation Endowment Program. The NEH Cultural Preservation Endowment supports cultural preservation and revitalization efforts at 24 of the 35 TCUs. TCUs participating in the program are allowed to use the funding for their college’s cultural preservation efforts. Past projects include community events, museum archival documentation, and establishment of cultural centers on campus.
The National Endowment for the Humanities is offered every year to the participating 24 TCUs every January with cultural preservation projects concluding in December of that year.
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By Jim Snyder, SIPI HSE Instructor Note from the editor: This blog post was written in November 2020, but could not be published at the time due to required and delayed external permissions. We are publishing it now to share SIPI’s perspective and experience of HSE...
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The Oglala Lakota College Community Continuing Education/GED department is slowly transitioning out of online-only programming as the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic lessen. Now more than one GED student at a time can be in the college centers, as long as there is still only one student and tutor per classroom.
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by Sherman Marshall, SGU Adult Basic Education Director For Debbie Burnette, joining Sinte Gleska University’s (SGU) Adult Basic Education (ABE) department in March 2020 was like coming home. Debbie’s connection with the ABE department goes back to 1979 when she...
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