Indian Affairs Council

Indian Affairs Council

161 Saint Anthony Ave
Suite 919
St. Paul, MN 55103

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American Indian Family Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$27,801
Source: 
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

The goal of the American Indian Family Center is to create an Early Childhood Montessori Language Immersion Program to offer to American Indian Families living in Saint Paul and the east metro area.

American Indian Studies Ojibwe Language Revitilization Project
Recipient: 
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Campus-Department of Indian Studies
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$90,000
Source: 
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Established in June of 1969, the Department of American Indian Studies is the oldest such program in the country with departmental status. 

Concordia College Language Villages
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$100,000
Source: 
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

The purpose of this grant is to build on what was created with last year’s grant funding by creating a Dakota Language and culture institute. The purpose of the institute is to offer multilevel teacher training seminars and Dakota language and culture immersion sessions for intergenerational groups.

Concordia Language Villages
Recipient: 
Concordia College Corp
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$100,000
Source: 
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Since 1961, Concordia Language Villages has been the premier language and cultural immersion program in the US, with a mission to "prepare young people for responsible citizenship in our global community."

Dakota Language and Culture Institute
Recipient: 
Concordia College Corp.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$80,000
Source: 
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

2010 Grant Activities Plan and implement a five-day immersion methodology training session for 20 Dakota participants, with a follow up weekend workshop. Create a thematic based immersion curriculum, along with assessment tools, for Dakota learners that will be available in print and via an interactive web page.

Dakota Language Immersion Camp
Recipient: 
The Upper Sioux Community
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$35,000
Source: 
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

The population of fluent speakers in all Dakota communities is decreasing at a rapid rate. The Upper Sioux is no exception to this. Because the Upper Sioux Community is small, accurate data on the number of Dakota speakers is easy to obtain.

Dakota Language Learning
Recipient: 
Dakota Wicohan
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$82,262
Source: 
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Dakota Wicohan is a regional non-profit language support organization that seeks to revitalize the Dakota language in Minnesota to a living language. Dakota Wicohan’s long range strategic plan includes building a strong teacher base, recording speakers, developing teaching tools from filming fluent speakers, developing additional learning opportunities, as well as, long term educational plans.

Dakota Language Teacher Development-Teacher Training
Recipient: 
Dakota Wicohan
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$78,623
Source: 
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Dakota Wicohan is a regional non-profit language support organization that seeks to preserve and renew the Dakota language in Minnesota to a living language.

Dakota Wicohan
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$52,469
Source: 
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Grant Activities: Dakota Wicohan is a regional non-profit language support organization that seeks to revitalize the Dakota language in Minnesota to a living language. In this grant, they will create a Dakota Public Awareness Project to promote awareness and knowledge of the Dakota language and its history to Minnesotans in 2013. Dakota Wicohan created a Dakota language documentary film which will be shown in ten communities, along with an educational booklet.

Dakota Wicohan
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$100,000
Source: 
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Dakota Wicohan is a regional non-profit language support organization that seeks to revitalize the Dakota language in Minnesota to a living language. In this grant, they will develop, digitize, and make available electronic and manual Dakota language learning resources to a minimum of 15 Dakota families and other learners broadly throughout the project year. The expected outcomes of this grant are to produce 40 sets of lists to be used in drafting of Dakota language software and to create an increased accessibility to Dakota language resources for Dakota families, as well as, create additional resources to teach and learn the Dakota language.