“Use Indian land to help Indian people discover and maintain their culture.”
Revitalizing cultural and spiritual values related to Indian land strengthens Indian nations and people. Land is a critical base for spiritual practices, beliefs, and worship. The land can be a keeper of memories, a portal to the spirit world, or a place to go for guidance and strength. Furthermore, the land supports cultural practices such as hunting, fishing, farming and harvesting wild foods. Maintaining strong cultural and spiritual ties to the land is necessary for preserving traditional practices and Native religious beliefs for future generations.
Funding Areas
Sacred Site Protection
ILTF provides support to Indian nations to conduct historical and cultural research to rediscover and document their sacred sites for the purpose of preservation and protection, public and tribal awareness, and litigation. To ensure the integrity of Native culture and the confidentiality of the knowledge, objects, stories or locations that participating tribes or Native organizations seek to protect, ILTF works with tribes on their terms as they honor their past, express their unique cultural identity and enrich their future with tribal tradition. This funding does not include the purchase of lands.
RFP Currently Closed
Tribal Land Histories
ILTF supports Indian nations’ research on tribal land histories that explore not only the land tenure changes to the aboriginal land base over time, but also the cultural aspects of the tribes’ historic and modern land tenure. The tribal land history must be disseminated in different modes such as: published work, presentations, researchable database, and incorporated into appropriate tribal programs and land use plans.
RFP Currently Closed
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ILTF remains open to unique and innovative projects from the community that serve to enlighten our strategies (education, cultural awareness, economic opportunity and legal reform) and have a significant impact on land issues in Indian Country. Consideration is given to projects with a broad, positive and replicable impact for Indian nations, while at the same time respecting the differences among, and unique circumstances of, Indian communities.
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