National Endowment
for the Humanities Grant
1997-Ongoing
Program Details
American Indian communities are seeing barriers and a dramatic decline in the use and practice of their languages, traditional arts, and broader cultural knowledge. TCUs help to shift this trend by offering culture and language maintenance, revitalization, restoration, and preservation activities to the students and communities they serve. The American Indian College Fund was awarded a Challenge Grant in 1993 by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) that led to the establishment of the NEH Cultural Preservation Program, which supports TCUs to carry out this important work within their communities.
The program is available to all 35 TCUs annually, and provides funding to administer Native culture and language preservation, perpetuation, and revitalization programming within their communities. Some projects include language camps, museum archival documentation, and the establishment of cultural centers on campus.
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Articles and success from the College Fund programs team.
SIPI Engages a Virtual Dialogue to Improve Early Childhood Teacher Education Programming
SIPI Engages a Virtual Dialogue to Improve Indigenous Early Childhood Teacher Education Programming
The Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute utilized its Ihduwiyayapi grant to consult community and Indigenous thought leaders to improve the Indigenous Early Childhood Education program curriculum and develop a virtual dialogue series of 4 guest lectures featuring Indigenous scholars and teachers.
American Indian College Fund’s Ihduwiyayapi Advancing Indigenous Early Childhood Education (IECE) Builds Community of Practice for Indigenous Educators
American Indian College Fund’s Ihduwiyayapi Advancing Indigenous Early Childhood Education (IECE) Builds Community of Practice for Indigenous Educators
The Mellon Foundation Awards $2,585,000 to American Indian College Fund
The Mellon Foundation Awards $2,585,000 to American Indian College Fund Grant Supports Indigenous High School Students’ Paths to College, College Transfer Students, and College Retention Denver, Colo., June 8, 2022—The Mellon Foundation has awarded the American Indian...
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Aaniiih Nakoda College (Ft. Belknap)
Bay Mills Community College
Blackfeet Community College
Cankdeska Cikana Community College
Chief Dull Knife College
Diné College
Little Big Horn College
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College
Fort Peck Community College
Haskell Indian Nations University
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University
Navajo Technical University
Oglala Lakota College
Salish Kootenai College
Nebraska Indian Community College
Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College
Northwest Indian College
Sinte Gleska University
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
Stone Child College
Turtle Mountain Community College
Sisseton Wahpeton College
Sitting Bull College
United Tribes Technical College
Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College
College of Menominee Nation
College of the Muscogee Nation
Ilisagvik College
Institute of American Indian Arts
Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College
Leech Lake Tribal College
Little Priest Tribal College
Tohono O'odham Community College
Red Lake Nation College
White Earth Tribal and Community College
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