Awards Database

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

With the generous support of the Agnese Nelms Haury Program, the CSF has 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.

This opportunity is open until filled and applicants have until June 30, 2024 to complete their project.

If you need some inspiration, please review the "Indigeponics - Community Food Resiliency Project" webpage to see what this student-led project accomplished. 

Partners: Dr. Karletta Chief, Director, UA Ires

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

UArizona AISES Student Chapter was awarded support by the Haury Program to help with hosting the 2024 AISES Region 3 Conference in March of 2023 at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. 

• Award Date: Apr 2023
• Duration: 2 years
• Status: Ongoing

Indigenous languages are critical components of Indigenous systems of knowledge and practice and are vital to Indigenous resilience. Yet state-of-the-art language technology is primarily built for English and a few other languages. The Indigenous Language Technologies (ILT) working group has been established to advance curriculum and collaborative research on language technologies for Indigenous languages at UA. This project will support: (1) a symposium inviting representatives of Indigenous language communities to share their technology needs and challenges; (2) development of a new course on equitable technology development for Indigenous language communities; (3) a pilot project to develop a scalable approach to inventory existing open-source software libraries and develop practice data sets that better meet the needs of Native language communities. Haury funds will support the costs of the symposium and a GRA to assist with project activities. This work will provide proof of concept to enhance competitiveness for larger external proposals (e.g. National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities) to scale up Indigenous language technology infrastructure.

This project is a revision to SBS request to redirect Haury Castro House grant to SBS.

Partners: Diné Center for Research and Evaluation (DCRE)

• Award Date: Apr 2023
• Duration: 2 years
• Status: Ongoing

As the Navajo Nation phases out coal, new energy technologies are proposed to replace this form of energy production. This project documents the challenges of energy transition among the Navajo Nations, in partnership with the Diné Policy Institute (Tsaile, AZ) to organize focus groups, surveys, and interviews about the future of energy and the status of energy transition for the tribe. Based on prior research, the legal, political, and cultural understandings of Diné bikeyah, Navajo access to land and water are fundamental to the practices of tribal governance and development. This project links questions of water access and water security to future development projects, to the degree these developments are impacted by water. This project will link literatures on sovereignty, land tenure, water security and energy transition to expand our geographic understanding of energy transition. The project has partial support from the Sloan Foundation to support field research (currently ongoing). Haury funds will support extending research collaborations the Diné Center for Research and Evaluation (DCRE); enhancing tribal engagement activities via chapter house presentations and meetings; and research assistance to expedite data analysis, writing, and dissemination.

This project is a revision to SBS request to redirect Haury Castro House grant to SBS.

• Award Date: Apr 2023
• Duration: 2 years
• Status: Ongoing

The Horses Connecting Communities (HCC) project will extend the HCC conference series, founded by Dr. Kelsey John in 2018, into a sustaining community learning and mentoring space. HCC centers the sacredness of the horse in Navajo traditional knowledge systems, in conversation with Western One Health scientific frameworks on the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment. Haury funds will support planning, implementation, and evaluation of events to be held on the Navajo Nation in summer 2023 and summer 2024. Programming will be developed by Navajo tribal members, in collaboration with UA partners from SBS, the College of Veterinary Medicine, and Tribal Extension. Based on evaluations from prior meetings, the community wants more hands-on demonstrations, opportunities for kids and families, and emphasis on traditional knowledge. Summer 2023 programming will include presentations of traditional horse songs and stories; experiential learning and demonstrations on horse training and care; One Health resilience dialogues on horses connecting people and environment; and mentoring panels led by Navajo equine professionals and students on navigating Western education. Evaluation feedback from the 2023 events will guide development of expanded mentoring programming in 2024 for Navajo high school students on One Health-related degree programs and careers.

This project is a revision to SBS request to redirect Haury Castro House grant to SBS.

• Award Date: Apr 2023
• Duration: 3 years
• Status: Ongoing

The Haury Program is pleased to provide startup funds for a new member of the UArizona Indigenous Resilience Center, Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson, a member of the Hopi Nation. Dr. Johnson holds a Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of Arizona, a Master of Public Policy from Pepperdine University, and a B.S. in Agriculture from Cornell University. Dr. Johnson is a faculty member and Assistance Specialist within the School of Natural Resources and the Environment, and a core faculty of the UArizona Indigenous Resilience Center.

This support is a part of the larger ongoing commitment of the Haury DAF Board to establishment of the UA Indigenous Resilience Center. Dr. Johnson is a part of cluster hire for the new center, along with Dr. Hoover and Dr. DeVore (coming in 2023). With the support of the Haury Program and through the Strategic Priorities Faculty Initiative (SPFI) through the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, along with the AIR Indigenous Resilience Center, the planning team designed a strategic hiring plan for stage one of the faculty expansion for IRes. It identified three strategic hires. In year one, two of these strategic hires accepted the UArizona offer for full time faculty positions and joined UArizona in fall of 2022.

• Award Date: Apr 2023
• Duration: 3 years
• Status: Ongoing

Haury Program is providing startup funds for a new UArizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences faculty member, Dr. Tessa Proving, who will start in 2024.

• Award Date: Apr 2023
• Duration: Ongoing
• Status: Ongoing

Haury Program is honored to offer annual support to Dr. Chomsky who joined the University of Arizona in 2017, and continues to teach and write.

• Award Date: Mar 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Completed

On April 6th and 7th, 2023, the Arizona Journal of Environmental Law and Policy hosted the Spring Symposium on Indigenous Land Stewardship. Their goal was to bring together a diverse array of Indigenous panelists from tribal communities, academia, the public sector, and advocacy organizations to discuss current efforts within the field of Indigenous land stewardship and its intersections with domestic and international law and policy.

Collaborating with the Native American Law Students Association and the Environmental Law Students Association, AJELP applied for and received supporting funding from the Haury Program and a number of other programs across campus (including the Indigenous Resilience Center, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, the Udall Center for Public Policy, Native Nations Institute, College of Law Diversity Committee, and University Office of the Provost) which made the Symposium a resounding success. The event keynote speech was given by Dorothy FireCloud (Sicangu Lakota - Rosebud Sioux Tribe), National Park Service (NPS) Native American Affairs Liaison, who discussed the Park Service’s current efforts to improve relationships with tribal communities, ensure Native Americans access to their ancestral lands, and strengthen the role of tribes in federal land management through co-stewardship agreements. On the second day, they held four panels: Land Back in Action, Protecting Indigenous Sacred Sites, Tribal Co-Management of Federal Lands, and Indigenous Knowledge in Land Stewardship Law and Policy. Each of these panels were made up of a diverse mix of attorneys, national and international Indigenous rights leaders, federal employees, and land and natural resource management specialists.

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

The Haury Program is honored to support a pilot program by the Cultural & Inclusive Experiential Learning Opportunities (CIELO) program! CIELO will partner with the University of Arizona's College of Nursing & Public Health and Michale Johnson of the UA Indigenous Resilience Center for a new week-long program and visit the communities of the Hopi, Navajo, Pascua Yaqui, and Tohono O'odham Nations. Participants will learn, hands-on on tribal healthcare practices, food sovereignty and equity while experience cultural immersion, service learning, and meaningful civic engagement.

Partners: Christian Jimmie, UA AISES Student Chapter

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

UA AISES Student Chapter, led by Christian Jimmie, and mentored by Dr. Karletta Chief, IRes Director, will be sponsoring at least 5 UArizona Native American students to attend an annual AISES conference, the largest gathering for Native Americans in STEM, including a job and resource fair. 

Partners: UArizona Indigenous Resilience Center

• Award Date: Dec 2022
• Duration: 2 years
• Status: Ongoing

This award compliments the IRes Community Impact Award, and provides additional funding for Natives Who Code  programming and coding education for indigenous students. In specific, this award will allow for community listening sessions in indigenous communities.

• Award Date: Aug 2022
• Duration: 3 years
• Status: Ongoing

The Haury Program is pleased to provide startup funds for a new member of the UArizona Indigenous Resilience Center, Dr. Joseph Hoover, Assistant Professor Department of Environmental Science. Dr. Hoover plans on installing a new laboratory for students to assist with his research and student studies.

This support is a part of the larger ongoing commitment of the Haury DAF Board to establishment of the UA Indigenous Resilience Center. Dr. Hoover is a part of cluster hire for the new center, along with Dr. Johnson and Dr. DeVore (coming in 2023). With the support of the Haury Program and through the Strategic Priorities Faculty Initiative (SPFI) through the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, along with the AIR Indigenous Resilience Center, the planning team designed a strategic hiring plan for stage one of the faculty expansion for IRes. It identified three strategic hires. In year one, two of these strategic hires accepted the UArizona offer for full time faculty positions and joined UArizona in fall of 2022.

• Award Date: Jul 2022
• Duration: 3 Years
• Status: Ongoing

Every center, especially new ones, need strong staff to support the faculty, and the Haury Board is honored to provide bridge salaries for bringing on Torran Anderson as a new Outreach Coordinator for IRes, and Bernice Rodriguez as a new Program Coordinator for IRes. This award is a part of the ongoing support by the Haury Program to the AIR Indigenous Resilience Center at UArizona as the first of it's kind, centering Native voices, expertise and needs.

• Award Date: Jul 2022
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

This award is a part of the ongoing support by the Haury Program to the AIR Indigenous Resilience Center at UArizona as the first of it's kind, centering Native voices, expertise and needs.