First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun: federal grants and contributions

Na-Cho Nyak Dun will address community-wide trauma by reintroducing traditional ceremony and culturally grounded coping mechanisms. Different healing practitioners will deliver culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and uniquely tailored activities for families and community members. The activities will alternate between being held in Mayo and Ethel Lake. Counselors, wellness workers, and Elders will support community members on their healing journeys.

• Department of Justice Canada
• Victims Fund
• Yukon

Expanding on recent water quality monitoring work by the First Nation of Nacho-Nyak Dun (FNNND) in collaboration with researchers at Carleton University, the project aimst to further develop FNNND’s capacity for continuous (automated) monitoring of key water quality parameters to ensure extreme conditions are observed, such as large pulses of sediment in streamwater following rain events over disturbed watersheds and during breaches of settling ponds from placer mine sites. The focus of continuous water quality monitoring will be on total suspended solids and water temperature, which are criti

• Polar Knowledge Canada
• Northern Science and Technology Program

Beaver river grizzly bear DNA mark-recapture population estimate and assessment of factors influencing grizzly bear density project

• Environment and Climate Change Canada

First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun Participation and Engagement in PPI

• Environment and Climate Change Canada

To build Indigenous and local communities' capacity to support the development of partnership and collaborative opportunities between TC and Indigenous groups, as well as amongst Indigenous groups for the purpose of administrating and implementing elements of the transportation system. To create opportunities for Indigenous groups to gather information, provide their views, and collect, protect and utilize Indigenous knowledge for the purposes of implementing TC initiatives, obtain responses to their concerns about decisions and inform decision makers in their consideration of potential advers

• Transport Canada
• Participant Funding Program to Support the Administration of the new Canadian Navigable Waters Act
• Yukon

• Victims Fund

All grants from Department of Justice Canada

All grants from Environment and Climate Change Canada

• Northern Science and Technology Program

All grants from Polar Knowledge Canada

• Participant Funding Program to Support the Administration of the new Canadian Navigable Waters Act

All grants from Transport Canada

• Victims Fund

• Northern Science and Technology Program

• Participant Funding Program to Support the Administration of the new Canadian Navigable Waters Act