Awards Database

• Award Date: Jun 2024
• Award Amount: $20,000
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

April Horne (Diné / Latina) is a PhD student in Higher Education at the University of Arizona, Her advisor is Dr. Jameson D. Lopez who was a Haury awardee in 2021. Her research, “Correlational Study of Indigeneity and College Affordability” aims to empower Indigenous / Native American students in higher education and expand Critical Quantitative Methodologies. 

• Award Date: Jun 2024
• Award Amount: $20,000
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

Jennifer Byram is a tribal member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and a PhD Candidate in Archeology at the University of Arizona School of Anthropology. Her dissertation project, “Re-Weaving Their Stories Together: A Community-Based Approach to Documenting Indigenous Women Weavers’ Work from the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries” documents variability in eighteenth and nineteenth-century weaving practices by Indigenous women of the Southeastern United States

• Award Date: Jun 2024
• Award Amount: $16,873
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

Salcido is a PhD Candidate in Language, Reading and Culture at the Department of Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies at the College of Education. Her advisor is Dr. Dr. Sheilah Nicholas. Ms. Salcido is Mexican and Tohono O’odham from Ajo, Arizona, the site of Arizona’s first open-pit copper mine.  During mining operations, Ajo was racially segregated into “Ajo '' for white community members, “Mexican Town” for Mexican community members, and “Indian Village” for Tohono O’odham and Hia-Ced O’odham community members.  Mexican Town and Indian Village were located next to the open-pit copper mine. When the mining company demolished the areas to expand the pit, Mexican Town and Indian Village residents were forcibly displaced from their homes.  Although Ajo is well-known for its mining history, Mexican and Indigenous community members’ stories and experiences with the enforced displacement have not been widely shared.  Judith’s research ““You don’t want to talk about the mine?”: Testimonios on the Forced Displacement of Residents from “Mexican Town” and “Indian Village” will use Indigenous storytelling and testimonio to center Indigenous and Mexican community members’ voices regarding their reactions and responses to the copper mine.  The project seeks to emphasize the lasting impacts of copper mining on Indigenous and Mexican communities

• Award Date: Jun 2024
• Award Amount: $20,000
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

RaeAnna Rabang is a Master of Professional Studies in Indigenous Governance at the University of Arizona Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program at the College of Law. Ms. Rabang’s project “Traditional Foods: Resurging through Old Knowledge” aims to breathe new life into the time-honored food traditions of the Coast Salish Peoples. In collaboration with Nourishing Nations, an Indigenous-led food bank in the Sto:lo Territory of coastal British Columbia, it explores a variety of approaches to reviving ancestral food practices, such as salmon fishing and native plant cultivation, in environments affected by colonization, industrialization, and resource extraction.

• Award Date: Jun 2024
• Award Amount: $20,000
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

Tommie Lorene is a Master Student in Graduate Programs in Human Rights Practice at the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Ms. Lorene will create a 20 - 40 minute documentary “We Are Still Here” on Duwamish Tribe. The Duwamish Tribe, dxwdəwʔabš have a history of at least 12,000 years in the land familiarly known as Seattle, WA / Greater King County. 

• Award Date: Jun 2024
• Award Amount: $20,000
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

William Carson, MPH is a member of Ohkay Owingeh and a Doctoral Candidate in Health Behavior Health Promotion at the Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Mr. Carson’s project is entitled “Explore the relationship of Indigenous identity, perceived stress, and healthcare utilization among Indigenous identifying students attending the University of Arizona,” and will tackle a question why is it that even though there are currently more Indigenous undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Arizona than any other time in the school’s history.

• Award Date: Jun 2024
• Award Amount: $20,000
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

Zoe Eleni Demitrack is a PhD student in Environmental Health Science at the UArizona College of Public Health. Her research entitled “Pollution originating from formerly used defense (FUD) sites on Unalaska Island with the Qawalangin Tribe” sits at the nexus of contaminant chemistry, eco-toxicology, and subsistence food use, incorporating data sovereignty and one-health principles. In particular, Ms. Demitrack’s research explores subsistence food contamination on Unalaska Island, AK. 

• Award Date: Nov 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

Indigenous Peoples in the US have a long history of taking sovereign action to protect and steward their data, knowledges, cultural heritage, specimens, and relatives. Yet, there are no national policies that address the data rights and needs for Indigenous Peoples in the US. The inaugural US Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Governance Summit, titled “Building Action and Power” will be held in April 2024, and will build upon the knowledge and conversations initiated in 2017 at UCLA and 2019 at ASU. The Summit will convene around 300 tribal leaders, Indigenous community members, academics, policy experts, and other data actors and rights- holders from across the US on April 10-12, 2024 for a half-day workshop designed for invited tribal leaders and Indigenous data scholars and two full days of engagement, education and networking activities on the lands of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe just outside of what is known today as Tucson, Arizona (an area that is also the historic homeland of the O’odham).

• Award Date: Oct 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

A Meeting of Sacred Waters is a gathering place for sharing Indigenous worldviews, values and perspectives to reclaim the health of the world’s water sources. Through the experiences of Indigenous Peoples from the US and abroad, this global exchange explores solutions to restore balance for the wellbeing of humanity and the environment. The conference is going to be held in March in Albuquerque , New Mexico. The Haury award will be applied to workshops relating to exposing ethical space.

• Award Date: Oct 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

The Haury Program is honored to continue direct support to the Navajo Nation via the Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources for the projects they identified as crucial next steps towards addressing water issues on the Nation, in particular the development of the Navajo Nation Water Infrastructure Status Report and Navajo Nation Water Infrastructure GIS Web Application.

• Award Date: Oct 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

Through the Director's Fund, the Haury Program is honored to support the great work of NASA in both supporting Native American students already studying at the UArizona, as well as working with other UArizona programs to welcome Native students from different high school at the UArizona campus, and open pathways for them.

• Award Date: Oct 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

UArizona Office of Native American Advancement and Tribal Engagement (NAATE) oversees university efforts to improve the success of Native American student; to promote tribal interests: and to build programs and research capacity to meet the needs of Native nations. The Haury Program award will support tribal engagement activities and events such as sign unveilings (See Video: Old Main - Hopi Language Sign Unveiling See Article: San Carlos Apache Arizona Stadium Sign Dedication), bringing the “On the Far End” play to campus, and other engagement with Tribes in their communities. 

• Award Date: Sep 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

The Haury Program funds will help the Confluencenter disseminate the artwork of members of the Latinx and Native communities done through the Pandemidiarios project launched in 2020 to highlight stories of resilience from the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the project, recipients archived digital versions of their artwork in UArizona's Libraries' Special Collections, now available to the public. Confluencenter will pursue oral history testimonies (bilingual when appropriate) to enrich and contextualize the archives and make them widely accessible by publishing a digital multimedia catalog and a limited printed edition. The short audio or video testimonies told by practitioners and culture bearers will help audiences understand the impact humanitarian crises could have on intangible assets, e.g., collective memory and cultural practices. The catalog, a collection of stories of resilience, will help preserve and uplift the cultural heritage of these communities profoundly impacted by the pandemic for future generations. We will also gather in-person or via Zoom to reflect and celebrate.

• Award Date: Sep 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

The Haury Program is honored to support the CSF to offer two Indigenous-Centered Mini Grant opportunities for the 2023 – 2024 school year. Each Mini Grant is $5,000 and is reserved for funding Indigenous-focused projects that are oriented toward environmental and/or social sustainability.

The opportunity is broad and can support a project related to art, science, community engagement, the built environment, and so much more. Preference will be given to projects that are student-led. Proposals must be led by an Indigenous campus community member or, preferably, that they are led by someone that is part of an Indigenous-centered group, center, club, or organization on campus. The proposals should support an Indigenous-centered program, project, group, club, center, or initiative on campus.

• Award Date: Jul 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

This award will provide supplemental support to the ongoing successful program called A Student’s Journey in 2023/2024, administered by the Tohono O'odham Community College (TOCC). Funds will be used in the following categories: Program Supplies, Promotional Items, Meeting Expenses, Honorariums and Travel.