Awards Database

• Award Date: Apr 2023
• Duration: Ongoing
• Status: Ongoing

Haury Program is honored to offer annual support to Dr. Chomsky who joined the University of Arizona in 2017, and continues to teach and write.

• Award Date: Mar 2023
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Completed

On April 6th and 7th, 2023, the Arizona Journal of Environmental Law and Policy hosted the Spring Symposium on Indigenous Land Stewardship. Their goal was to bring together a diverse array of Indigenous panelists from tribal communities, academia, the public sector, and advocacy organizations to discuss current efforts within the field of Indigenous land stewardship and its intersections with domestic and international law and policy.

Collaborating with the Native American Law Students Association and the Environmental Law Students Association, AJELP applied for and received supporting funding from the Haury Program and a number of other programs across campus (including the Indigenous Resilience Center, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, the Udall Center for Public Policy, Native Nations Institute, College of Law Diversity Committee, and University Office of the Provost) which made the Symposium a resounding success. The event keynote speech was given by Dorothy FireCloud (Sicangu Lakota - Rosebud Sioux Tribe), National Park Service (NPS) Native American Affairs Liaison, who discussed the Park Service’s current efforts to improve relationships with tribal communities, ensure Native Americans access to their ancestral lands, and strengthen the role of tribes in federal land management through co-stewardship agreements. On the second day, they held four panels: Land Back in Action, Protecting Indigenous Sacred Sites, Tribal Co-Management of Federal Lands, and Indigenous Knowledge in Land Stewardship Law and Policy. Each of these panels were made up of a diverse mix of attorneys, national and international Indigenous rights leaders, federal employees, and land and natural resource management specialists.

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

The Haury Program is honored to support a pilot program by the Cultural & Inclusive Experiential Learning Opportunities (CIELO) program! CIELO will partner with the University of Arizona's College of Nursing & Public Health and Michale Johnson of the UA Indigenous Resilience Center for a new week-long program and visit the communities of the Hopi, Navajo, Pascua Yaqui, and Tohono O'odham Nations. Participants will learn, hands-on on tribal healthcare practices, food sovereignty and equity while experience cultural immersion, service learning, and meaningful civic engagement.

Partners: Christian Jimmie, UA AISES Student Chapter

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

UA AISES Student Chapter, led by Christian Jimmie, and mentored by Dr. Karletta Chief, IRes Director, will be sponsoring at least 5 UArizona Native American students to attend an annual AISES conference, the largest gathering for Native Americans in STEM, including a job and resource fair. 

Partners: UArizona Indigenous Resilience Center

• Award Date: Dec 2022
• Duration: 2 years
• Status: Ongoing

This award compliments the IRes Community Impact Award, and provides additional funding for Natives Who Code  programming and coding education for indigenous students. In specific, this award will allow for community listening sessions in indigenous communities.

• Award Date: Aug 2022
• Duration: 3 years
• Status: Ongoing

The Haury Program is pleased to provide startup funds for a new member of the UArizona Indigenous Resilience Center, Dr. Joseph Hoover, Assistant Professor Department of Environmental Science. Dr. Hoover plans on installing a new laboratory for students to assist with his research and student studies.

This support is a part of the larger ongoing commitment of the Haury DAF Board to establishment of the UA Indigenous Resilience Center. Dr. Hoover is a part of cluster hire for the new center, along with Dr. Johnson and Dr. DeVore (coming in 2023). With the support of the Haury Program and through the Strategic Priorities Faculty Initiative (SPFI) through the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, along with the AIR Indigenous Resilience Center, the planning team designed a strategic hiring plan for stage one of the faculty expansion for IRes. It identified three strategic hires. In year one, two of these strategic hires accepted the UArizona offer for full time faculty positions and joined UArizona in fall of 2022.

• Award Date: Jul 2022
• Duration: 3 Years
• Status: Ongoing

Every center, especially new ones, need strong staff to support the faculty, and the Haury Board is honored to provide bridge salaries for bringing on Torran Anderson as a new Outreach Coordinator for IRes, and Bernice Rodriguez as a new Program Coordinator for IRes. This award is a part of the ongoing support by the Haury Program to the AIR Indigenous Resilience Center at UArizona as the first of it's kind, centering Native voices, expertise and needs.

• Award Date: Jul 2022
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

This award is a part of the ongoing support by the Haury Program to the AIR Indigenous Resilience Center at UArizona as the first of it's kind, centering Native voices, expertise and needs.

• Award Date: Jun 2022
• Duration: 2 years
• Status: Ongoing

The Indigenous Correspondents Program (ICP), a nascent partnership between UArizona and Planet Forward, aims to support journalistic, critical, and strategic storytelling to amplify the voices of Indigenous students and professionals working on finding solutions to the growing social and environmental challenges facing Indigenous communities, including water access/quality, health care inequality, education, and discrimination.

Through short-form creative non-fiction, the ICP supports the co-creation of new resonant narratives of the human experience challenged by socio-environmental issues by bringing together Indigenous oral traditions and digital literature. In doing so, the program invites Indigenous scholars to defy mainstream discourses and propose new perspectives on how to elevate the dignity of all human beings - and how to connect all humans to the planet and ecosystems that support them.

• Award Date: May 2022
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

Natasha Chantel Riccio is a PhD student at the UArizona Arid Lands Resource Sciences department. Natasha will work with Dr. Benjamin Wilder, Director of the UArizona Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill. Natasha's research is at the nexus of ethnobotany, ecology, genetics, and agriculture, incorporating multiple perspectives to build a larger whole. In particular, Natasha's research explores climate-resilient agricultural models through a transdisciplinary approach to studying human-plant relationships grounded in cultural Knowledge. Natasha is especially interested in Agave murpheyi, a species of agave domesticated by the Hohokam and farmed throughout the Sonoran Desert by Indigenous peoples. Natasha has begun conversations with collaborators from the San Xavier District, the San Xavier Coop Farm, and the Akimel O'odham community to develop a network of sanctuaries for these bio-culturally significant plants.

• Award Date: May 2022
• Award Amount: $10,000
• Duration: 2 years
• Status: Ongoing

Nikki Tulley (Diné), is a PhD student in the Department of Environmental Science with a concentration in Hydroscience at the University of Arizona. Nikki is currently working on the project “Assessing Navajo COVID-19 Risks and Increasing Indigenous Resilience,” led by Dr. Karletta Chief, Professor at the UArizona Environmental Science department and Director of the Indigenous Resilience Center. Nikki will work during the summer conducting surveys to Navajo water haulers to identify water hauling, water quality, and water relief needs.

• Award Date: May 2022
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Completed

Chantel Harrison (Diné) is a Professional Science Master’s student at the UArizona Applied Biosciences program in the Controlled Environment Agriculture track and a student-trainee in the IndigeFEWSS (Indigenous Food, Energy, & Water Security and Sovereignty) project funded by the National Science Foundation. Chantel has experience developing research initiatives related to nutrition and nutrition education with a solid commitment to giving back to her community members. Chantel will be working with Dr. Murat Kacira, Director of the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center, to address food sovereignty, food insecurity, and the food-energy-water nexus in urban and rural Indigenous communities.

• Award Date: May 2022
• Award Amount: $18,000
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Completed

Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan (Tohono O'odham), PhD candidate from the San Xavier District, will be working with professor Dr. Ronald Trosper of the UArizona American Indian Studies Department. Jacelle is majoring in American Indian Studies with a minor in Journalism at the University of Arizona. Jacelle's research focuses on the San Xavier District's efforts to cope with the loss of water from the Santa Cruz River and the impact of applying the water allotment policy to the District. This community-based research argues that the Tohono O'odham people of San Xavier have demonstrated resilience by establishing two community organizations: the San Xavier Allottees Association and the San Xavier Cooperative Farm, which utilizes allotted lands.

• Award Date: May 2022
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Completed

Dr. Ruth E. Taylor-Piliae, Associate Professor at the UArizona College of Nursing, will be working with Christine Hodgson, PhD candidate at the UArizona College of Nursing, to conduct the community-based research project Understanding the Resilience of Children Living on an Indian Reservation: A Mixed Methods Participatory-Social Justice Investigation with the Fort Peck Tribes in Montana. The study, approved by the UArizona and Fort Peck Tribes’ IRBs, aims to understand the resilience of children living on an Indian reservation to inform preventive health interventions by acknowledging tribal customs and beliefs and Indigenous Knowledge. In addition, the study will address health inequities and lay the groundwork for future research in other tribal communities. 

• Award Date: May 2022
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

Native SOAR provides multigenerational mentoring and professional development services that center on the needs of American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) students throughout the K-20 educational system. Native SOAR does this by drawing upon asset-based AI/AN pedagogies to provide culturally responsive virtual and in-person mentoring and support services, which ultimately contributes to the University of Arizona's recruitment and retention efforts. In alignment with the University’s Native American Initiatives strategic plan, the project aims to provide Native students the tools to successfully navigate the University of Arizona experience before, during, and after college entrance.