Indigenous Specific Funding: grad and undergrad

• Your Tribe might have scholarships, check with them!

• Ask your college or university if they have scholarships too!

• National Study on College Affordability for Indigenous Students

• Climate Change, Ecology, Environment, &Science: Tribal Resilience Opportunities for Indigenous Youth and Young Professionals 

  1. American Chemistry Society Scholars Program: for a career in chemistry

  2. Caleb Scholars Program (Alaska) https://www.calebscholars.org/

  3. Alaska Native Science and Engineering Society: https://www.ansep.net/

  4. Arctic Resilient Communities Youth Fellowship (ARCYF): https://arcyf.org/

  5. Arctic Youth Ambassadors: https://www.arcticyouthambassadors.org/

  6. Native Youth Climate Adaptation Leadership Congress (NYCALC)

  7.  Indian Youth Service Corps (IYSC)  

  8. Civilian Climate Corps (CCC) program is organized by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 

  9. Climate Internships, Scholarships and Fellowships

  10. Washington Sea Grant Keystone Fellowship Program

• Center for Native American Youth https://www.cnay.org/

  1. Brave Heart Fellows

  2. Champions for Change

  3. Remembering our Sisters Fellowship

• Compilations of funding opportunities

  1. Tons of funding opportunities http://thecirifoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ERHB-2021-2022-1.pdf

  2. Native Indian Education Association listing of scholarships https://www.niea.org/scholarship-opportunities  

  3. Bureau of Indian Education scholarship packet  https://www.bie.edu/sites/default/files/documents/BIE%20Higher%20Education%20Grant%20Program-Scholarship%20Information%20Packet.pdf

  4. TEDNA’s Indigenous College Guide to Somewhere (released Feb 2024)

• Federal

  1. Pathways Program

  2. Recent Graduates Program

  3. Presidential Managements Fellows Program

• General

  1. American Indian Graduate Center     https://www.aigcs.org/

  2. American Indian College Fund https://collegefund.org/students/scholarships/

  3. American Indian Education Fund http://www.nativepartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=aief_home%20

  4. Association on American Indian Affairs https://www.indian-affairs.org/scholarships.html

  5. American Indian Services: https://www.americanindianservices.org/ 

  6. Cobell Scholarships  https://cobellscholar.org/

  7. Native Forward Scholarship Finder https://www.nativeforward.org/scholarship-finder/ (Native Forward also offers their own undergraduate and graduate scholarships)

  8. Native American Tuition Waiver at Fort Lewis College in Colorado

  9. Colleges That Offer Tuition Waivers and Scholarships for Native American Students

• Graduate and Postdoc 

  1. Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI) Postdoctoral Career Pathways Fellowship 

  2. Listing of graduate school funding opportunities https://research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-opportunities/graduate/

  3. Research for Indigenous Social Action and Equity Center (RISE) at the University of Michigan Indigenous Research Grants Program (funding to graduate student, post-doctoral, faculty, and non-academic researchers)

  4. Native Children's Research Exchange: https://coloradosph.cuanschutz.edu/research-and-practice/centers-programs/caianh/training/ncre-scholars-program

  5. Montana State University in partnership with the National Institutes of Health and hosts at Arizona State University, Promoting Indigenous Research Leadership (PIRL)

  6. Johns Hopkins University Mixed Methods training

  7. National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) Health Disparities Research Institute

  8. Society for Prevention Research Early Career Prevention Science Mentoring Program

  9. University of Washington LUNA Program-interdisciplinary training opportunity in Indigenous health and health disparities research.

  10. University of Washington INSPIRE Program- An Indigenous Substance Use and Addictions Prevention Interdisciplinary Research Education program

• Hawaii (Native Hawaiians)

  1. Alaka'ina Scholarship | Chaminade University of Honolulu

  2. Alaka'ina Foundation Electronics Technology Scholarship

  3. Alakaʻina Foundation UH Engineering Scholarship

  4. Alaka'ina Foundation UH Community College Scholarship

  5. Pauahi Foundation: 200+ Scholarship Opportunities

• Health

  1. Supplemental student support program for Native American and Alaska Native students pursuing their nursing degree at Montana State University https://www.montana.edu/coop/

  2. Health Policy Research Scholars is a national leadership program for #doctoral students in any  discipline starting their 2nd year of study and want to apply their research to  build healthier and more equitable communities. https://healthpolicyresearch-scholars.org/

  3. John Hopkins Medical Training: https://caih.jhu.edu/training

  4. Indian Health Services Scholarship Program https://www.ihs.gov/scholarship/index.cfm 

  5. Morris K. Udall and John S. McCain III Native American Graduate Fellowship in Tribal Policy https://www.udall.gov/OurPrograms/Fellowship/Fellowship.aspx 

  6. Lighting Up Native Aspirations (LUNA) for health research careers

  7. NCAI Native Graduate Fellowship https://www.ncai.org/get-involved/internships-fellowships/native-graduate-health-fellowship 

• Law

  1. Pre-Law Summer Institute for American Indians and Alaska Natives https://www.ailc-inc.org/plsi/ 

  2. Berkeley Law Native American Opportunity Plan and Professional Degree Supplemental Tuition, practically free law degree for Indigenous Peoples who are CA residents

• Political

  1. Native American Political Leadership Program (George Washington University): https://cipp.cps.gwu.edu/naplp-program

  2. Udall Undergraduate Scholarship https://www.udall.gov/ourprograms/scholarship/scholarship.aspx

Not Indigenous Specific Funding for dissertation/postdoc (thanks to @BlkDiaspoRican and @BlkGrlBrilliant):

• Consortium for Faculty Diversity (CFD) Dissertation Completion Fellowship (also offers postdocs) Ann Plato (dissertation) Fellowship at Trinity College. This is the same application as the CFD.

• Gaius Charles Bolin Fellowship at Williams College. 2 year fellowship (dissertation+postdoc)

• Center for Engaged Scholarship Fellowship. 1 year of dissertation funding ($30K) for folks doing research in the social sciences

• Mellon/ACLS dissertation innovation fellowship

• Luce/ACLS dissertation fellowship in American art for those who study the history of art or visual culture of the US

• Ford Dissertation Fellowship

• Library Company of Philadelphia’s Program in African American History Mellon Scholar Dissertation Fellowship

• Library Company of Philly has two other diss fellowships: Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (any subject relevant to collections) & Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) Dissertation Fellowship (early American economy/society)

• McNeil Center for Early American Studies (UPenn) diss fellowship

• American Association of University Women dissertation fellowship

• Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship at Kenyon College. $36K, teach 1 class/semester in your general subject area

•  PEO scholar award, which is for PhD candidates who are women

• NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant

• 2017-18 Postdoc List

Programs:

PhD Programs

• Indigenous Studies-University of Alaska Fairbanks  (US)

• Indigenous Health-University of North Dakota (US)

• Indigenous Studies-University of Alberta (Canada)

• Indigenous Studies-Trent University (Canada)

• Native American Studies-University of California Davis  (US)

• American Indian Studies-University of Arizona  (US)

• Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies-University of Oregon  (US)

• Native American and Indigenous Studies-University of California San Diego
  
  

• Other Indigenous Studies Programs all levels

• More Native Studies Programs all levels

JD Programs

• Hawaiʻi Online JD Flex

• Indigenous Peoples Law Oklahoma

  • JD

  • M.L.S. in Indigenous Peoples Law 

  • LL.M. in Indigenous Peoples Law

Conferences

• Arctic/Alaska

  • Arctic Calendar is an online, searchable calendar of major meetings and events relevant to the arctic science, education, and policy communities. 

  • Arctic Circle Assembly

  • Arctic Circle Forum

  • Arctic Congress

  • Arctic Development Expo

  • Arctic Encounter

  • Alaska Federation of Natives Convention

  • Arctic Frontiers

  • Arctic Indigenous Investment Conference 

  • Alaska Marine Symposium

  • Alaska Native Studies Conference

  • Arctic Science Summit Week

  • Alaska Tribal Conference on Environmental Management

  • Bureau of Indian Affairs Tribal Provider's Conference 

  • Co-Stewardship Symposium

  • First Alaskan's Institute Annual Statewide Elders & Youth Conference

  • Highway North Dialogue

  • International Arctic Change Conference

  • International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences 

  • International Congress on Circumpolar Health

  • Navigating the New Arctic Community Meeting

  • Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference and Forum

• Community Engaged Conferences

  • Biennial Conference of the Society for Community Research and Action

• Economic

  • World Economic Forum

• Education

  • American Indian/Indigenous Teacher Education Conference

  • International Conference on Education & Justice

  • Native American Education Conference

  • Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) 

  • National Association for Research in Science Teaching | NARST

  • World Indigenous Peoples' Conference on Education

• Environment

  • International Indigenous Climate Change Research Summit (IICCRS) 

  • National Tribal & Indigenous Climate Conference

  • National Adaptation Forum

  • Native American Fish and Wildlife Society Annual National Conference

  • National Tribal Forum on Air Quality (NTFAQ)

  • Tribal Lands & Environment Forum (TLEF)

  • National Tribal & Indigenous Climate Conference

  • Tribal Exchange Network Conference

• Health/Wellbeing

  • American Indian Elders Conference

  • Annual Conference of Substance Use Disorders among Pacific Islanders-Guam

  • Coyote Institute's Two-Eyed Seeing Conference (Muiwatmnej Etuaptmumk Conference)-Canada

  • Healing Our Spirit Worldwide-Canada

  • National Indian Health Board National Tribal Public Health Summit

  • National Indian Health Board National Tribal Health Conference

  • International Indigenous Nursing Research Summit

  • Native Children's Research Exchange Conference

  • National Indigenous Physical Activity & Wellness Conference

  • National Native Harm Reduction Summit 

  • National Conference on American Indian and Alaska Native Injury and Violence Prevention

• Indigenous Languages

  • International Conference on Indigenous Languages (ICIL)

  • International Conference on Revitalization of Indigenous and Minoritized Languages (ICRIML)

  • International Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Indigenous Peoples (ICELCIP)

  • Indigenous Language Conference of the Americas (ILCA)

  • National Indian Education Association (NIEA) Native Language Summit

  • Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

  • Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA)

  • International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC)

  • Inaugural International Conference on Indigenous Language Documentation, Education, and Revitalization (2023)

  • Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium (SILS)

  • PULiiMA Indigenous Language and Technology Conference

  • Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair

  • RIVAS conference-support the scholarship of Indigenous academics and speakers whose cultures help shape American linguistics, archeology and cultural anthropology

  • ***Anthropology, applied linguistics, education, Indigenous studies conferences may have language revitalization strands or special interest groups.

• Other

  • International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums

  • International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (with Annual Indigenous Inquiries Circle Pre-conference)

  • State of Indian Nations

  • National Tribal Preservation Conference

  • Association on American Indian Affairs Annual Repatriation Conference

  • National Congress of American Indians Mid-year Conference and Marketplace

  • National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Annual Convention

  • Annual Native American Economic Development Conference

  • Annual Native American Healthcare Conference

  • Annual Native American Housing Conference

  • Stabilizing Indigenous Languages 

  • Annual Tribal Casino & Hotel Development Conference

  • American Indian Science and Engineering Society National Conference

  • Annual American Indian Tourism Conference

  • Native American Leadership Forum

  • National Indian Nations: Justice for Victims of Crime Conference

  • National Indian Nations Conference

  • International Indigenous Research Conference (IIRC)

  • International Indigenous Women's Symposium

  • Ocean Sciences Meeting

  • Society for Community Research and Action Biennial Conference

  • United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

• Youth

  • Native Youth Leadership Summit

Listservs and Newsletters:

Listserves, orgs, groups, to sign up for:

• Facebook: Native American Graduate Students

• Facebook: Indigenous Scholars and Like-Minded Individuals Sharing Group

• Facebook: Native American and Indigenous Studies Association on Facebook

• decolonial research group (reading circle and zotero library)

• Unsettling America: Decolonization in Theory & Practice

• The Decolonial Critique List Serv 

• Indigenous Wire Native News-Rob Capriccioso (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians)

• Indian Country Today

• The Imprint Native American News-Nancy Marie Spears (Cherokee Nation)

• List of National Native Organizations and InterTribal Organizations

• Native American Organizations Serving the Community

• University of Washington Indigenous Wellness Research Institute

Find Indigenous businesses here!

Listserves:

These are some great listservs to follow and I recommend you follow their social media too! These are a bit US based as that is where I am from. 

• Alaska Specific

  • Kawerak

  • Cook Inlet Tribal Council

• Arctic

  • 1. • International Arctic Social Sciences Assoc (IASSA)

       • Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS)

       • International Arctic Science Committee (IASC)

       • International Arctic Research Center (IARC)

       • UArctic: https://www.uarctic.org/Interagency 

       • Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC)

       • Arctic Research Consortium of the United States

       • Arctic Science Summit Week

       • Arctic Today

       • Migration in Harmony is a Research Coordination Network 

       • Study of Arctic Environmental Change (SEARCH)

       • Polar Science Early Career Community Office

• Futures

  • Indigenous Futures Institute

• Health

  • Administration for Native Americans

  • Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium

  • Center for Alaska Native Health Research-University of Alaska Fairbanks

  • Child Trends

  • Center for American Indian Health Research (CAIHR)

  • Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity (CAIRHE)-Montana State University

  • Colorado School of Public Health Centers for American Indian & Alaska Native Health

  • Indian Health Service (government)

  • National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center

  • Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board

  • Seven Directions-A Center for Indigenous Public Health

  • South Central Foundation-Alaska

  • Sovereign Bodies Institute

  • Urban Indian Health Institute

• Education

  • American Educational Research Association-Indigenous Peoples of the Americas SIG 

• Environment/Climate

  • University of Oregon Tribal Climate Change Project

  • Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission 

  • Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals 

  • Keepers of the Water

  • Northeastern University Environment

• Law

  • Tribal Law and Policy Institute

  • Native American Rights Fund

  • First Peoples' Law

• Policy

  • Alaska Federation of Natives

  • Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Regional Association (links to AK Native regional for profits and non profits)

  • Association on American Indian Affairs

  • First Alaskan's Institute

  • Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development

  • Idle No More

  • Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage

  • Inuit Circumpolar Council-Alaska

  • National Congress of American Indians

  • Native Movement

  • Native Nations Institute

  • Native Americans in Philanthropy

  • NDN Collective

• Research

  • American Evaluation Association Indigenous TIG

  • Data for Indigenous Justice

  • Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)

  • University of North Carolina American Indian Center

  • University of Washington Center for American Indian & Indigenous Studies

• Youth

  • Alaska Native Heritage Center

  • Arctic Youth Ambassadors

  • Capacity Building Center for Tribes

  • Center for Native American Youth

  • International Indigenous Youth