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<time datetime="2023-09-12T12:39:37-04:00" class="ContentPasted3">SEPTEMBER 12, 2023</time></dd></dl>
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<span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3">The Department of the Interior announced nearly $3.5 million in 2023 Indian Youth Service Corps (IYSC) grants to eight projects involving more than 20 Tribes and Tribal
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<span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3">Created by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo), the program was designed to provide Indigenous youth with meaningful, Tribally-led public service opportunities to support the conservation
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<span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3">“I launched the Indian Youth Service Corps to help empower the next generation of Native leaders as they engage in the co-stewardship of public lands and the application of Indigenous Knowledge," <span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3">Haaland
said in a statement. </span> "The Corps will help these young people strengthen their connection to the lands and waters that their ancestors have cared for since time immemoria</span></p>
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The grants are designed to help develop Tribal capacity in conservation, natural resource management, and climate resilience. They also provide Tribes and Tribal organizations with financial resources that enable them to invest in, train and recruit a new generation
of skilled Indigenous workers. </p>
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<span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3">The 2023 Indian Youth Service Corps grants were awarded to:</span></p>
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<li><strong style="font-weight:bold"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3">Wood for Life (New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado) </span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3">- $1 million awarded to expand the Ancestral
Lands Conservation Corps’ Wood for Life Program, engaging Native youth from the Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe, Pueblo of Acoma, Pueblo of Zuni, and Pueblo of Isleta in reforestation efforts, wildland fire mitigation, and forestry, while also supporting local Tribal
fuel and firewood needs. Additional program coordination support will be provided by the U.S. Forest Service.</span></li><li><strong style="font-weight:bold"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3">Ahtna Cultural Heritage Youth Program (Alaska) </span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3">- $560,000 awarded to the Ahtna Cultural
Center, located within the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, to promote federal-Tribal co-stewardship and expand job opportunities for Ahtna Incorporated’s Native youth. Additional program coordination support will be provided by the U.S. National
Park Service.</span></li><li><strong style="font-weight:bold"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3">Wabanaki Youth in Science Program (Maine) </span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3">- $528,119 to fund a corps comprised of Native
youth from the Wabanaki Nations (Mi’kmaq Nation, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, Passamaquoddy Tribe, Penobscot Nation) to promote the transfer of Indigenous Knowledge, expose Native youth to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and
careers, and bolster federal-Tribal co-stewardship efforts.</span></li><li><strong style="font-weight:bold"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3">Traditional Farm Corps (New Mexico) </span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3">- $480,223 to fund new Native youth corps in collaboration
with the Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps, Pueblo of Acoma, Pueblo of Isleta, and Pueblo of Zuni. Youth will work to restore local Indigenous food systems through agriculture, seed saving, and intergenerational knowledge-sharing. The project will revitalize
traditional food sovereignty and promote access to fresh, locally sourced foods for the communities served.</span></li><li><strong style="font-weight:bold"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3">Hopi Youth Service Corps Program (Arizona)</span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3"> - $300,000 to fund a Native Youth Corps comprised
of Hopi Youth in collaboration with the Hopi Tribe and Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps to restore, protect and preserve the cultural landscape on the Hopi Reservation.</span></li><li><strong style="font-weight:bold"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3">7Gen Service Corps (South Dakota)</span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3"> - $300,000 awarded to Siċaŋġu Co. to provide interdisciplinary
and experiential learning internships for youth of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Opportunities will center on Indigenous land and natural resource management, bison restoration, regenerative agriculture, cultural resource management, language revitalization, Indigenous
Knowledge, and community and workforce development.</span></li><li><strong style="font-weight:bold"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3">Connecting System Impacted Native Youth to Careers in Natural Resources (New Mexico)</span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3"> - $250,000
awarded to the Urban Native Barrio Corps (Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps and La Plazita Institute) to engage Native youth and young adults from the greater Albuquerque area to provide restorative justice programming and technical training in environmental
conservation and natural resource management. Additional program coordination support will be provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.</span></li><li class="ContentPasted3"><strong style="font-weight:bold"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3">Intergenerational Natural Resources Summer Youth Camp at Coronado National Forest (Arizona)</span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="ContentPasted3"> -
$48,400 to benefit Native youth from Tribal communities surrounding Coronado National Forest, including 12 federally recognized Tribes with ancestral ties to the forest (Ak-Chin Indian Community, Fort Sill Apache, Gila River Indian Community, Hopi Tribe, Mescalero
Apache Tribe, Pascua Yaqui Tribe, Pueblo of Zuni, Salt River Maricopa Indian Community, San Carlos Apache Tribe, Tohono O’odham Nation, White Mountain Apache Tribe, Yavapai Apache Tribe). Additional program coordination support will be provided by the U.S.
Forest Service.</span> </li></ul>
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