Winner, Economic Development category | The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Natural Resources Department shares 14 brownfield sites from the L'Anse Indian Reservation. The creation of this story was funded in part by an EPA Small Technical Assistance Grant.
Winner, Policy category | The Navajo Nation COVID-19 Water Access Coordination Group provides information on how tribal residents without piped water in their homes can gain access to water from safe sources. The group also stresses using safe water for cooking and drinking.
Winner, Cultural Preservation category | The restoration program within the Snoqualmie Tribe Environmental and Natural Resource (ENR) Department focuses on restoring the connection between the tribe's people and their traditional lands for generations to come.
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The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Natural Resources Department describe the dominant invasive weeds on the land they manage, the challenges they face, and the monitoring methods they use to document invasive species.
Since the Smith River Valley was taken from the Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation in the 1850s, the land's natural resources have significantly deteriorated. Commercial resource extraction, landscape alteration, toxic pesticides, and invasive species are impacting the land's health.
This story shares the historic and ongoing timeline of the Samish Indian Nation, a Coast Salish tribe headquartered near the Salish Sea in Anacortes, Washington. The story was created as a way for Samish citizens to stay connected to their history and share it with others.
The Samish Indian Nation and its partners are putting forth a collaborative effort to restore the Oregon spotted frog (OSF) habitat in Washington State. The habitat provides a healthy environment for culturally significant and traditionally used plant and animal species.
The goal of this Samish Indian Nation story is to focus on the tribes’ relationship and history with the Samish territory by sharing Indigenous place-names in the language of the Samish people. The map includes audio links that bring Indigenous place-names to life.
Samish people have been stewards of the environment in the San Juan archipelago, Washington, for hundreds of generations. This story shares how the Samish Indian Nation assessed trends in bull kelp and overall bull kelp canopy coverage over 10 years in the archipelago.
The Yankton Sioux Tribe shares its COVID-19 community recovery efforts, which include enhancing awareness of vaccine distribution sites and providing educational and health resources.
This story provides an introduction to the history of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. Included are descriptions of each tribe's native territory, an explanation of how members of each tribe arrived on the reservation, and the lifeways of each tribe.
The Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians presents stories of transition and resilience in California's high desert, focusing on traditional trails and the ancient travel and trade routes that impacted the region's tribal population.
