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Native Voices Endowment Grants

The 2024 NVE Call for Proposals is now closed.
Please note that the guidelines for NVE grants have changed. You can find out more
​by viewing the guidelines, here.

(If you're looking for the Language Legacies grants page, click here.)

ELF provides grants for eligible languages through the Native Voices Endowment: A Lewis & Clark Expedition Bicentennial Legacy. ​These funds come from the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Council, which received the revenues from the U.S. Mint's sale of the Lewis and Clark 2004 Commemorative Coin. Grants through this program are available to members of the Native American tribes that came in contact with the Lewis and Clark Expedition between 1803-1806. 

Grants are available for work on documentation and revitalization of the languages of these tribes (see below for list of eligible languages). Applicants (Principal Investigators) must be enrolled tribal members or employees of tribal colleges. Scholarships for academic work in linguistics or a Native language, or for Master/Apprentice programs are also available for tribal members. 
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To learn more about the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Exhibit, please visit www.lewisandclarkexhibit.org/index_flash.html.
​Click here for a list of eligible languages.
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Mosiah Bluecloud, Doug Whalen (Founder, ELF), Aaron Broadwell (ELF Board member), Kate Bridwell-Briner, Robert Lewis, and Kristine Hildebrandt (ELF VP). Mosiah, Kate, and Robert were three of the five who received NVE fellowships to the 2018 CoLang.
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Lindsay Marean, Jaeci Hall, and Doug Whalen in Alaska. Jaeci received an NVE fellowship to attend the 2016 CoLang

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Map created by ELF intern Osama Abdl-haleem 2015
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"The ELF will always remain a part of our collective memory. We thank you and the ELF sincerely for being a part of our effort to save one the richest dialects on this part of the planet."

- Dr. Mite Lingi, Language Legacies Recipient 2015

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    • Sharing Language Diversity Fellowship
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