Environment

Fort Yates, ND — A grant for evaluation and learning support to develop and implement an evaluation framework for SAGE’s advancement of the Anpetu Wi wind farm.
Anpetu Wi (Morning Light) is a 235MW wind farm owned by the Native nation Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to develop energy self-reliance while upholding cultural values, meeting economic goals, and combating climate change. Anpetu Wi is expected to be the single largest revenue source for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

Fort Yates, ND — A ten-year program-related investment (PRI) to SAGE Development Authority for Anpetu Wi (Morning Light) Wind Farm - a 235MW wind farm owned by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to develop energy self-reliance while upholding cultural values, meeting economic goals, and combating climate change. Anpetu Wi is expected to be the single largest revenue source for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

Anpetu Wi will be developed on tribal land and aims to fundamentally change the Tribe's relationship with renewable energy to foster sustainability, sovereignty and good stewardship of Unci Maka (Grandmother Earth).

Kyle, SD — This is the first phase of work to establish new markets for Native-raised, grass-fed beef and buffalo. Tanka Fund will create the Tanka Resilient Agricultural Company as a social enterprise to build the capacity of individual Native cattle and bison producers and create and test a new collective marketing approach.

Alexandria, VA — This grant builds on a previous Community Innovation Grant for the Mni Wizipan Wakan (Water Bundles) Project. This work aims to manage and protect water rights on the Ihanktonwan (Yankton) Reservation by creating a political, scientific and legal basis for tribal-federal government co-management of the landscape and hydroscape of the Missouri River Cultural Basin that passes through tribal lands. This grant supports developing and testing an idea that has the potential to transform the way tribes manage water.

Washington, DC — This grant builds on a previous Community Innovation grant to align the stewardship of Pine Ridge tribal lands with community needs and aspirations. The next phase of the work is to form an innovative public/Native nation partnership that indigenizes conservation by bringing the Oglala Lakota peoples' perspective to co-management of the 133,000-acre, tribally owned portion of Pine Ridge Reservation, designated the South Unit of Badlands National Park. This work has the potential to transform the way Native nations manage and regain cultural connections to their lands within national park boundaries.

Mission, SD — The Wolakota Buffalo Range (WBR) is a dynamic, multidimensional project that will regenerate the land, people, and economy of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate by returning buffalo at a scale essential to ensuring they survive and thrive. With a capacity to support 1,500 animals, the WBR will become North America’s largest Native American owned and managed buffalo herd and will model how to integrate large herds within Native nations in the region and beyond. This grant builds on a previous Community Innovation grant to support this effort.

Saint Paul, MN — To create a model of public-private partnership with government agencies that will transform the way government respects and honors Dakota history and cultural beliefs in managing lands and waters

Callaway, MN — Intertribal hemp cooperative development and demonstration project

Mckinleyville, CA — To develop energy self-reliance to the benefit of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

Minneapolis, MN — To develop Minnesota’s first prescription medication repository program and make it accessible to communities with the greatest needs