Past Funded LLGP Grant Projects

We have awarded $10 million to preserve Native American languages since 2020.

In FY2021 & FY2022, we approved $7 million in funds for 45 federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and villages to document, preserve, and revitalize Native languages.
In FY2020, we approved $3 million in funds for 18 federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and villages to document, preserve, and revitalize Native languages.
We look forward to awarding more funds to preserve Native American languages via the FY2023 LLGP NOFO!

We often receive more proposals than can be funded by our annual budget, which is determined by Congress and varies on a year-to-year basis. Submissions were rated on how effectively the language programs would document, preserve, or revitalize a Native language; the degree to which the language addressed by a proposal risks extinction; the likelihood that the instruction to be funded would revitalize the language by preventing intergenerational disruption; and the number of students or percentage of tribal members the proposal would benefit.

FY2021 and FY2022 Living Languages Grant Program Awardees

Congratulations to the FY2021 and FY2022 Living Languages Grant Program Awardees!! The Awardees are listed below (Press Release is available here):

$172,026.00 Artic Slope Community Foundation, Inc.

$86,240.98 Bois Forte Band of Chippewa

$200,000.00 Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska

$166,300.00 Chickaloon Native Village

$199,997.00 Chickasaw Nation

$180,100.00 Chippewa Cree Tribe

$192,121.24 Comanche Nation

$161,150.00 Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua & Siuslaw Indians

$82,396.00 Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation

$59,290.00 Cow Creek Band of the Umpqua Tribe of Indians

$198,996.00 Delaware Nation

$60,189.40 Dine College

$155,717.62 Forest County Potawatomi Community

$199,680.00 Fort Belknap Community Economic Development Corporation

$121,299.00 Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe

$199,686.00 Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of the Stewarts Point Rancheria

$200,000.00 Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Inc.

$200,000.00 Lummi Nation

$129,337.00 Manzanita Band of Diegueno Mission Indians

$199,900.84 Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

$199,854.00 Modoc Nation

$85,064.00 Mohegan Tribe of Indians of CT

$69,789.00 Muscogee (Creek) Nation

$159,957.67 Nez Perce Tribe

$192,371.00 North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians of California

$169,648.87 Northern Arapaho Tribe

$60,000.00 Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation

$200,000.00 Omaha Tribe of Nebraska

$192,460.75 Pala Band of Mission Indians

$139,930.94 Puyallup Tribe of Indians

$72,000.00 Quapaw Nation

$168,792.50 Rosebud Economic Development Corporation

$193,998.00 Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan

$184,344.00 San Carlos Apache Tribal Council

$157,956.00 Santee Sioux Nation

$123,795.00 Santo Domingo Pueblo (Kewa Pueblo)

$106,554.00 Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians

$170,297.00 Spirit Lake Tribe

$172,328.00 Tribal Government of Saint Paul Island

$200,000.00 Turtle Mountain Community College

$200,000.00 Ute Mountain Ute Tribe

$138,230.31 Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California

$198,364.00 Wichita and Affiliated Tribes

$81,134.00 Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska

$198,703.88 Wiyot Tribe

FY2020 Living Languages Grant Program Awardees

In 2020, we approved $3 million in funds for 18 federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and villages to document, preserve, and revitalize Native languages.

Reservation	State	Amount
Cherokee Nation	Oklahoma	$200,000
Citizen Potawatomi Nation	Oklahoma	$200,066
Comanche Nation	Oklahoma	$169,443
Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana	Louisiana	$198,559
Douglas Indian Association	Alaska	$199,645
Forest County Potawatomi Community	Wisconsin	$189,326
Hydaburg Cooperative Association	Alaska	$188,430
Igiugig Village	Alaska	$138,088
Lummi Tribe	Washington	$168,969
Makah Indian Tribe	Washington	$73,156
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe	Massachusetts	$200,000
Rosebud Sioux Tribe	South Dakota	$199,829
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community	Arizona	$64,700
Skokomish Indian Tribe	Washington	$185,319
Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation	California	$131,858
Ute Mountain Ute Tribe	Colorado	$191,570
Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska	Nebraska	$100,717
Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation	California	$200,000