Awards Database

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

Indigenous Peoples in the US have a long history of taking sovereign action to protect and steward their data, knowledges, cultural heritage, specimens, and relatives. Yet, there are no national policies that address the data rights and needs for Indigenous Peoples in the US. The inaugural US Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Governance Summit, titled “Building Action and Power” will be held in April 2024, and will build upon the knowledge and conversations initiated in 2017 at UCLA and 2019 at ASU. The Summit will convene around 300 tribal leaders, Indigenous community members, academics, policy experts, and other data actors and rights- holders from across the US on April 10-12, 2024 for a half-day workshop designed for invited tribal leaders and Indigenous data scholars and two full days of engagement, education and networking activities on the lands of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe just outside of what is known today as Tucson, Arizona (an area that is also the historic homeland of the O’odham).

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

A Meeting of Sacred Waters is a gathering place for sharing Indigenous worldviews, values and perspectives to reclaim the health of the world’s water sources. Through the experiences of Indigenous Peoples from the US and abroad, this global exchange explores solutions to restore balance for the wellbeing of humanity and the environment. The conference is going to be held in March in Albuquerque , New Mexico. The Haury award will be applied to workshops relating to exposing ethical space.

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

The Haury Program is honored to continue direct support to the Navajo Nation via the Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources for the projects they identified as crucial next steps towards addressing water issues on the Nation, in particular the development of the Navajo Nation Water Infrastructure Status Report and Navajo Nation Water Infrastructure GIS Web Application.

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

Through the Director's Fund, the Haury Program is honored to support the great work of NASA in both supporting Native American students already studying at the UArizona, as well as working with other UArizona programs to welcome Native students from different high school at the UArizona campus, and open pathways for them.

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

UArizona Office of Native American Advancement and Tribal Engagement (NAATE) oversees university efforts to improve the success of Native American student; to promote tribal interests: and to build programs and research capacity to meet the needs of Native nations. The Haury Program award will support tribal engagement activities and events such as sign unveilings (See Video: Old Main - Hopi Language Sign Unveiling See Article: San Carlos Apache Arizona Stadium Sign Dedication), bringing the “On the Far End” play to campus, and other engagement with Tribes in their communities. 

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

The Haury Program funds will help the Confluencenter disseminate the artwork of members of the Latinx and Native communities done through the Pandemidiarios project launched in 2020 to highlight stories of resilience from the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the project, recipients archived digital versions of their artwork in UArizona's Libraries' Special Collections, now available to the public. Confluencenter will pursue oral history testimonies (bilingual when appropriate) to enrich and contextualize the archives and make them widely accessible by publishing a digital multimedia catalog and a limited printed edition. The short audio or video testimonies told by practitioners and culture bearers will help audiences understand the impact humanitarian crises could have on intangible assets, e.g., collective memory and cultural practices. The catalog, a collection of stories of resilience, will help preserve and uplift the cultural heritage of these communities profoundly impacted by the pandemic for future generations. We will also gather in-person or via Zoom to reflect and celebrate.

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

The Haury Program is honored to support the CSF to offer 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.

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

This award will provide supplemental support to the ongoing successful program called A Student’s Journey in 2023/2024, administered by the Tohono O'odham Community College (TOCC). Funds will be used in the following categories: Program Supplies, Promotional Items, Meeting Expenses, Honorariums and Travel.

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

This award will support a part of the IndigiWellbeing Programming in FY24, in particular to bring world-renowned chef Sean Sherman, aka The Sioux Chef to the UA campus to share with the Native American students, faculty and staff, as well as other UArizona communities.

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

This award will support Anu Sethuraman, a PhD student in Environmental Science. Anu seeks to combine water quality/environmental exposures research with climate change research using a community engaged research framework on the Navajo Nation.

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

This award will support Christopher Yazzie, Diné and a PhD Student at the UA Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department in his  work related to equitable water access for Native American and Indigenous communities. The funds will be leveraged with other funds and provide Mr. Yazzie’s summer, fall and spring salary for FY24.

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

This award will support Don Unger, PhD student, in his research on Diné water issues related to the reclamation of coal and uranium mining sites on Dinétah Bikéyah.

Partners: Cara Shopa; Program Manager, University of Arizona Sponsor

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

This award will support Jessica Begay, Diné, a student at Diné College, in her investigation of the ecological importance of sagebrush populations and the effects of changing climatic conditions. In specific, this research proposal aims to compare the fungal endophytic communities of Artemisia species during the drought summer of 2021 and the subsequent summer following an unusual winter.

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

This award will support Mark Clytus, PhD Student at UA American Indian Studies in pursuing his research entitled "Indigenous Perspective for Cultural Sustainable Engineering Education Curriculum in Higher Education for Native American Students."

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

This award will support Nizhoni Tallas, Diné and a PhD student in Natural Resources & the Environment at the UArizona. Ms. Tallas’s research will examine the intersectionality of Indigenous communities within the national, tribal, and state parks.