Canku Ota

(Many Paths)

An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America

November 30, 2002 - Issue 75

Opportunities - Page Three

• Positions Available - including Fellowships and Internships;
• Scholarship, Award and Grant Information; and
• Event Announcements.

• We receive these announcements from various sources including Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP).

• To view additional listing from previous issues, click here

GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Title: Grants Program
Sponsor: Streisand Foundation

SYNOPSIS:
The sponsor provides support to nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations working on issues of the environment, women, civil liberties and democratic values, civil rights and race relations, children's and youth-related issues with a focus on the economically disadvantaged, and AIDS research, advocacy, service and litigation. Awards range from $1,000 to $25,000; however, most awards are in the range of $10,000 to $20,000.

Address: 1460 4th Street
Suite 212
Santa Monica, CA 90401 U.S.A.

Program URL: http://www.barbra-streisand.com/bio_streisand_foundation.html

GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Title: Grants Program
Sponsor: Lannan Foundation

SYNOPSIS:
Support is provided for programs in the contemporary visual arts; literary arts; and projects in indigenous communities to support the resolve of Native people to renew their communities through their own institutions and traditions.

Contact: Jo Chapman
Address: 313 Read Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501-2628 U.S.A.
E-mail: jo@lannan.org

Program URL: http://www.lannan.org/grant/guide.htm
Tel: 505-986-8160 x112

OBJECTIVES:
Areas of interest include funding organizations that support diverse writers through publication, presentation, and distribution. Funding for projects in indigenous communities supports the resolve of Native people to renew their communities through their own institutions and traditions. Funding priority is given to rural community projects that are consistent with traditional values in the areas of environmental protection and advocacy, legal rights, language revitalization, traditional culture, and education.

GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Title: American Indian/Alaska Native National Resource Center for Substance Abuse (CSAP/CSAT)
Sponsor: Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

SYNOPSIS:
The sponsor provides support for a cooperative agreement for implementing the American Indian/Alaska Native National Resource Center for Substance Abuse Services. It is anticipated that one award will be made for approximately $1.0 million per year for up to three years.

Contact: Jon Rolf, Ph.D.
Address: CSAP/SAMHSA, Rockwall II
Room 800
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857 U.S.A.
E-mail: jrolf@samhsa.gov
Web Site: http://www.samhsa.gov
Program URL: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2002_register&docid=02-23340-filed
Tel: 301-443-0380
Fax: 301-443-7072

GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Title: Phillips Fund Grants for Native American Research
Sponsor: American Philosophical Society

Address: 104 South Fifth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106-3387
U.S.A.
E-mail: eroach@amphilsoc.org
Program URL: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/phillips.htm

OBJECTIVES:
The sponsor provides support for research in Native American linguistics and ethnohistory, and the history of studies of Native Americans in the continental United States and Canada. Grants are not made for projects in
archaeology, ethnography, psycholinguistics, or for the preparation of pedagogical materials. The sponsor distinguishes contemporary ethnography from ethnohistory as the study of cultures and culture change through time.

ELIGIBILITY
The sponsor prefers to make awards to support the work of younger scholars who have received the doctorate. Applications are also accepted from graduate students, for research on master's or doctoral dissertations. The
sponsor will seldom approve more than two awards to the same person within a five year period. Applicants may be residents of the United States, or American citizens resident abroad. Foreign nationals are eligible to apply
for projects to be carried out in the United States.

FUNDING
The average award is about $2,200; grants do not exceed $3,000. Grants are ordinarily given for one year following the date of the award. The grants are intended for such extra costs as travel, tapes, films, and consultants' fees, but not for general maintenance or the purchase of books or permanent equipment.

GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Title: Social and Economic Development Strategies (SEDS) Projects
Sponsor: Administration for Native Americans/Administration for Children and Families/DHHS

SYNOPSIS:
Support is provided for projects to promote the goal of social and economic self-sufficiency for American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native American Pacific Islanders through locally developed social and economic development strategies (SEDS). A total of $20 million is expected to be available to fund approximately 150 grants ranging from $50,000 to $1,000,000.

Address:
370 L'Enfant Promenade
Mail Stop 800 West
Washington, DC 20447-0002
U.S.A.
E-mail: ana@acf.hhs.gov
Web Site: http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ana/
Program URL: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2002_register&docid=02-24122-filed
Tel: 202-690-7776
Fax: 202-690-7441

GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Sponsor: Women's Community Foundation

SYNOPSIS:
The sponsor's grant making is based on the principle that women should have the freedom to make choices in all aspects of their lives: employment, religion, health, sexual orientation, family life, reproduction, education and residence. The intention is to fund and assist women organizing on their own behalf. Any project seeking support from the sponsor must protect and expand the choices women and girls make in their lives.

Address: 1836 Euclid Avenue
Suite 626
Cleveland, OH 44115 U.S.A.
E-mail: wcfcleve@wcfcleveland.org

Program URL: http://www.wcfcleveland.org/funding.htm
Tel: 216-622-0920

OBJECTIVES:
Preference is given to programs and organizations working for social change, community organizing, advocacy and education. Emphasis is placed on programs that work toward eliminating gender discrimination faced by
women and girls, especially projects that serve those most affected by economic, social and physical oppression, i.e. women of color, lesbians, low-income women, older women, girls and teenagers, and women with disabilities.

GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Sponsor: Seventh Generation Fund

Address: P.O. Box 4569
Arcata, CA 95518 U.S.A.
E-mail: of7gen@pacbell.net
Program URL: http://www.7genfund.org/we_help.html
Tel: 707-825-7640
Fax: 707-825-7639

OBJECTIVES:
The project's purpose, design and implementation strategy must originate from the indigenous people it will serve. The leadership and decision-making authority clearly must be vested in the people impacted by the project. The project must promote and enhance the culture, traditional institutions, language, values, and way of life of its constituents.

CALL FOR PAPERS - PLEASE CIRCULATE

The Department of Ethnography of The British Museum will be organizing a conference on the subject of Powwow. February 21-23 2003.

This conference will provide an opportunity to examine the ways in which the concept of Powwow has been developed and redefined over the course of the 20th century by Native people - from its beginnings in the early twentieth century as part of a Pan-Indian response to enforced assimilation and acculturation - to its contemporary _expression in vibrant festivals held throughout North America.

You are invited to submit a short proposal on any related topic.

Deadline for proposals is December 1st.

Modest travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses are available for speakers (if other funding is unavailable).

Further details are available by following the link, below - http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethno/powwow.html

or by contacting:

Dr. Robert Storrie
Department of Ethnography
The British Museum
6, Burlington Gardens
London W1S 3EX
UK

email: rstorrie@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7323 8040
Fax: 020 7323 8013

PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO STUDENTS AND COLLEAGUES. If you have access to newsletters or journals, please would you include an announcement for the conference.

Thank you

Program Number: 00220
Title: Native American Visiting Student Awards
Sponsor: Smithsonian Institution

Contact:

Address: Office of Fellowships
P.O. Box 37012
Victor Building, Suite 9300 MRC 902
Washington, DC 20013-7012
U.S.A.
E-mail: siofg@si.edu
Web Site: http://www.si.edu/research+study
Program URL: http://www.si.edu/ofg/PDFfiles/NAPvisitstu.PDF
Tel: 202-275-0655
Fax:
Deadline Ind: Receipt
Deadline Open: No

Award Type(s): Facilities-Access To
Research Grants/R & D

Citizenship/Country of Applying Institution:
Any/No Restrictions

Locations Tenable: U.S.A. Citizenship (including U.S. Territories)

Appl Type(s): Minority Individual
Graduate Student

Target Group(s): NONE
Funding Limit: $0 SEEBELOW
Duration: 10 WEEK(s)
Indirect Costs: Unspecified
Cost Sharing: No
Sponsor Type: Federal

Geo. Restricted: NO RESTRICTIONS

OBJECTIVES:
Awards are available to support Native American students to pursue independent research projects in association with the sponsor's staff and the use of the sponsor's Native American resources.

ELIGIBILITY
Eligible applicants are currently enrolled Native American advanced graduate students who are formally or informally affiliated with a Native American community or tribe.

FUNDING
Stipends are $100 per day for up to twenty-one days and $350 per week for three to ten weeks, a travel allowance and a small research allowance.

Program Number: 00313
Title: Native American Community Scholar's Awards
Sponsor: Smithsonian Institution

SYNOPSIS:
Awards enable Native American scholars who are formally or informally related to a Native American community or tribe, to undertake individually designed research projects related to Native American topics, using the sponsor's Native American resources. Awards provide a stipend of $100 per day, travel allowance, and a small research allowance for up to twenty-one days.

Contact:

Address: Office of Fellowships
P.O. Box 37012
Victor Building, Suite 9300 MRC 902
Washington, DC 20013-7012
U.S.A.
E-mail: siofg@si.edu
Web Site: http://www.si.edu/research+study
Program URL: http://www.si.edu/ofg/PDFfiles/NAPcomsch.PDF
Tel: 202-275-0655
Fax:
Deadline Ind: Receipt
Deadline Open: No

Award Type(s): Facilities-Access To
Research Grants/R & D

Citizenship/Country of Applying Institution:
Any/No Restrictions

Locations Tenable: U.S.A. Citizenship (including U.S. Territories)

Appl Type(s): Minority Individual
Graduate Student
Undergraduate Student

Target Group(s): NONE
Funding Limit: $100 DAY
Duration: 21 DAY(s)
Indirect Costs: Unspecified
Cost Sharing: No
Sponsor Type: Federal

Geo. Restricted: NO RESTRICTIONS

OBJECTIVES:
Support is provided for Native American scholars to pursue research related to Native American topics using the sponsor's Native American collections and resources.

ELIGIBILITY
Eligible applicants are Native American students or scholars who are formally or informally affiliated with a Native American community or tribe.

FUNDING
Awards provide a stipend of $100 per day for up to twenty-one days, travel allowance, and a small research allowance.

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