Description

This grant is a renewal proposal and will help bridge support for Mountain Time Arts (MTA). This grant will help support core operations and programming that will include public art in story telling Yellowstone National Park (Yellowstone Revealed); public art displays along the Bozeman Creek to represent Native history and culture (Bozeman Creek) and expand Indigenous People’s Day programing. Overall, this grant will support MTA efforts to use public art to expand public knowledge on Native history and culture related to land dispossession, genocide and ongoing survival of Native people and nations in Montana.
 
This connects to IKI program plan objective 1B: To foster an environment conducive to knowledge production in Indigenous communities—one in which knowledge makers and keepers have access to and are supported by a robust infrastructure of organizations, programs, projects, and resources.
 
This grant also connects to ongoing national policy work that is focused on increasing public knowledge around the creation of National Parks. In this regard, this connects to IKI program plan objective 2B: To invest in the efforts of Indigenous communities and leaders to articulate effectively their needs, aspirations, and ideas within policy ecosystems at the state, regional, national and global levels in ways that build support for Native knowledge systems/work.