Awards Database

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

Haury Program is honored to award an inaugural support for Program Manager for the newly established Indigenous Resilience Center housed within AIR, and welcomes Daniel "Danny" Sestiaga to the U of Arizona team! 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: Dec 2021
• Duration: 2 years
• Status: Ongoing

Award to support the hiring of a Project Coordinator for the Native American Code Writers Program hosted at the UArizona College of Education.

• Award Date: Dec 2021
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

Year 2 to fund an Administrative Assistant to the newly appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, (UNSRRIP/Special Rapporteur), Francisco Cali Tzay. 

• Award Date: Oct 2021
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

Funding support to complete the design and then launch the UArizona Native American Web Portal Research Data Base and Inventory of Resources and Programs (“Grand Challenges” pillar- identified in the overall 2019 Strategic Plan for the University of Arizona).

Partners: Maurice Upshaw, NNDWR Water Management Branch and Teresa Miguel-Stearns, UArizona Law Library

• Award Date: Oct 2021
• Duration: 8 months
• Status: Ongoing

The Library Preservation Project, conceived to preserve and give public access to valued, one-of-a-kind documents, some dated back to the 1930s, involves three phases:

Phase I consists of securing over 8,000 water resource documents, reports, and maps from NNDWR Library at the Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library. For now, the only people who will have access will be researchers that will be pre-approved by NNDWR on a case-by-case basis and facilitated by the Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library.

Phase II consists of preparing and digitizing the collection. At this point, Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library plans to recruit and hire students to help with Phase II work, including preparing the collection materials for digitization, creating metadata, and performing quality control. Leads secured funding from CERES for phase II.

Phase III is a collaborative effort between the Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library and the UArizona’s Communication and Cyber Technologies to create a database to host the digitized library. Once the collection is digitized, most of the collection will be publicly available, with NNDWR determining which resources will require restricted access.

The Library Preservation Project honors the tribal and information sovereignty of the Navajo Nation and their data and resources while working with the NNDWR to provide access to essential information to improve all aspects of water resources in the Navajo Nation

• Award Date: Sep 2021
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Completed

The award supports the work of Dr. Tsosie-Paddock and will further advance faculty diversity at UArizona and strengthen education and equity for Navajo students. Dr. Tsosie- Paddock has been teaching the university’s only first- and second-year Navajo courses along with numerous Navajo-related courses in AIS.

• Award Date: Jul 2021
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Completed

The award will help Redstar develop and implement a strategy to utilize the film From the Mountains to the Sea to engage a national audience to explore the health and healing of our rivers through an Indigenous lens. This interactive campaign and materials will be developed to build conversations centered on diverse Indigenous worldviews, values and perspectives about the future of our nation’s rivers.

The aims of the engagement strategy will be: a) to highlight the interconnectedness between our health and the health of our rivers, b) to Share the learnings that emerged through Indigenous knowledge exchange, and c) to Explore Indigenous pathways to heal our rivers through sustainable, systemic change.

• Award Date: Jul 2021
• Duration: 2 years
• Status: Completed

Funds to support the hiring of a Program Coordinator for the UArizona Native American Initiative office led by VP Dr. Karen Francis-Begay.

• Award Date: Jun 2021
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Completed

Funds to support Joint Professor Dr. Kevin Lansey from the UArizona School of Civil Engineering and Hydrology and Atmospheric Science to hire Mr. Christian Jimmie from Arizona State University.

• Award Date: Jun 2021
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Completed

Funds to support Dr. Andrew Curley from the UArizona School of Geography, Development, and Environment to hire Marle Dave Lister from the University of North Carolina.

• Award Date: Jun 2021
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

Award to support a partnership between the College of Education’s Indigenous Teacher Education Project (ITEP) and the Digital Innovation and Learning Lab (DIALL), led by Drs. Jeremy Garcia, Blaine Smith, and Valerie Shirley to initiate the “Indigenizing Coding Education” project. The project will enable the establishment of relationships with local Native nations and tribal schools, with the goal of co-constructing a digital literacies and Native American Code Writers Program that strives to include Indigenous knowledge, languages, and values of the communities.

• Award Date: Jun 2021
• Duration: 1 year
• Status: Ongoing

Funds to support Dr. Jameson D. Lopez from the UArizona School of Education.

Partners: Diné College

• Award Date: May 2021
• Duration: 8 months
• Status: Ongoing

The award will fund five tribal college students from Diné College to participate in a joint summer research experience between The University of Arizona and Diné College. The program, hosted by the Arizona Institutes for Resilience, is called Bridge to STEAM and immerses students in a 10-week summer research hands-on experience. 

• Award Date: May 2021
• Duration: 3 years
• Status: Ongoing

For the last several years, F&B members have been leading Barrio Centro to greater health and safety by building on the community's strengths and assets. F&B transformed the grounds of Julia Keen Elementary School into an urban farm called the Midtown Farm. The farm serves as a training ground for youth and community members to learn a broad range of skills. Children, youth, parents, and grandparents flock to the school grounds to volunteer, harvest produce, and learn about sustainable living grounded in the practices of the community's ancestors. Participants take workshops on backyard gardening, water harvesting, and raising and processing goats for milk, cheese, and meat. Water harvesting, permaculture, and other green infrastructure systems are not widely accessible to marginalized communities, who also suffer from limited access to healthy food. These sustainable living practices are a way to combat the economic, health, and food struggles in the Barrio – and support people in becoming more economically self-sufficient.

The Midtown Farm offers a new model of community engagement through urban agriculture. The Midtown Farm is a tool to build community and address historical trauma in Barrio Centro. Trauma is caused by disproportionate incarceration, substance use, food insecurity, health disparities, and economic inequality. We build trust and community by responding in real-time to the needs of the community.

The project includes the purchase of the property, deconstruction, and renovation of the building, increases in operating costs for two years, and completion of other site elements, including the building to ramadas, greenhouses, workshop spaces, and storages to reduce the cost of renovating the property, minimize future maintenance cost, and create a structure that can harvest rain, provide shade and enable vibrant activities that strengthen Barrio Centro.

• Award Date: May 2021
• Duration: 3 months
• Status: Ongoing

The award aims to fund the hiring of two summer staff members to recruit new students and for operational funds for Native SOAR’s first virtual summer program.