National Endowment
for the Humanities Grant
1997 – Ongoing
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About The Program
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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Program Gallery
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Grantees
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Aaniiih Nakoda College (Ft. Belknap)
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Bay Mills Community College
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Blackfeet Community College
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Cankdeska Cikana Community College
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Chief Dull Knife College
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College of Menominee Nation
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College of the Muscogee Nation
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Diné College
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Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College
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Fort Peck Community College
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Haskell Indian Nations University
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Ilisagvik College
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Institute of American Indian Arts
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Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College
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Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University
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Leech Lake Tribal College
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Little Big Horn College
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Little Priest Tribal College
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Navajo Technical University
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Nebraska Indian Community College
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Northwest Indian College
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Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College
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Oglala Lakota College
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Red Lake Nation College
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Salish Kootenai College
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Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College
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Sinte Gleska University
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Sisseton Wahpeton College
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Sitting Bull College
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Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
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Stone Child College
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Tohono O'odham Community College
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Turtle Mountain Community College
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United Tribes Technical College
![White Earth Tribal and Community College](https://collegefund.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/grantee-white-earth-tribal-and-community-college-logo.jpg)
White Earth Tribal and Community College
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