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Planting the Seeds...for Our Children's Future: The Hopi Education Endowment Fund

Producer
Hopi Education Endowment Fund
Year

This seven-minute video presents the founding, development, and current work of the Hopi Education Endowment Fund (HEEF), which won an Honoring Nations award (High Honors) from the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development in 2006. The video chronicles HEEF's work in support of its mission of "cultivating and nurturing the future of our Hopi people through education by growing and safeguarding a perpetual source of funding."

capacity building
Honoring Nations
strategic planning
citizen education
People
Sam Tenakhonga
Native Nations
Hopi Tribe
Resource Type
TV, Radio and Film
Topics
Governance
Citation

Tenakhonga, Sam. "Planting the Seeds...For Our Children's Future." Hopi Education Endowment Fund. Kykotsmovi, Arizona. 2009. TV, Radio, and Film. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb7PDOUo0UY, accessed June 3, 2024)

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