Emergency Heat Funds on Pine Ridge

Heat Match Program Update 1/27/23 Our Heat Match program on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation kicked off with a bang on Monday, January 9, when on day 1, 127 families came to our field office, Tipi Waste Un Zanipi (Wellness Through a Good Home), to submit their funding applications. In two weeks alone, we have […]
Dreamstarter Creative Camas Logue: Ink from algae to document the endangered C’waam fish

Running Strong for American Indian Youth® Dreamstarter Creative Camas Logue (Klamath Tribes) of La Connor, Washington, told us in his grant application that his favorite medium is oil paint, saying, “I am most able to express the patterns and layers I find when observing the land through this medium.” And for his Dreamstarter Creative project, […]
Brooke Waldron: Helping to Preserve the Future with Native Pottery

Running Strong for American Indian Youth® Dreamstarter Creative Brooke Waldron Waldron (Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe) of Hopkinton, Rhode Island, dream project was titled “Traditional Creation, the Preservation of the Future: A Historical design of Contemporary Woodland Native Pottery.” “My project was to research, develop and create a body of work that reproduces both traditional and contemporary […]