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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SGU Connects Arts and Culture to GED Classroom
Sinte Gleska University’s high school equivalency students become grounded in their cultural identities as they lead community engagement efforts through Native Arts workshops.
Giving Back to Native Youth
Jeri’s first step to achieving her dream of serving and supporting Native youth is completing her high school equivalency degree at Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University.
Grantees
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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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