Summary: The Sitka Tribe of Alaska will involve 250 participants, along with adult volunteers, in Learn and Serve America projects designed to increase and enhance intergenerational communication and cooperation. The Sitka Tribe of Alaska will partner with the Sitka School District, the Sitka Native Education Program, and the Sitka Boys & Girls Club to implement service-learning activities during and after the school day and on weekends. Learn and Serve America activities will include tutoring, distributing food to elders, serving lunch to seniors, visiting elders to do chores, training senior citizens on computers, recycling, and developing and publishing oral history booklets.

Summary: Hannahville Indian Community will involve 60 participants, along with adult volunteers, in Learn and Serve America projects including constructing a house to give to an under privileged family, growing a garden and harvesting fruits for food distribution to the community, making blankets that will be given to mothers of newborns, creating a walking trail, and selecting and making a product to sell in order to raise money to purchase books to donate to the children's wing of the local hospital. Program partners include the 21st Century Learning Center as the venue for after-school and weekend service and Big Brothers and Big Sisters to generate some of the adult volunteers.

Summary: The Fort McDermitt Paiute/Shoshone Tribe, in partnership with the McDermitt Combined School, will involve 165 participants along with adult volunteers in service-learning projects focusing on mentoring, preserving tribal culture, and supporting community/economic development. The project activities will include mentoring; teaching traditional dances, songs and chants, as well as making regalia in order to perform at local events and powwows; and attracting tourists and businesses to the local community by building an RV park, planning for an observatory and a pool and park facility at one of the local hot springs, and hosting stargazing events for local citizens and astronomers.

Summary: Addressing a need to enhance social awareness and reduce risky behavior among youth, the Cherokee Nation Learn and Serve program will strengthen communities through increased exposure to Cherokee cultural virtues. School-based service-learning projects will be implemented through 17 sub-grants awarded to K-12 Oklahoma Public Schools in the Cherokee Nation that involve young people working with community elders to restore the value of Cherokee life-ways and the practice of “Ga du di,” (or working together for the good of all). More than 3000 students and 500 adults will participate in service activities organized by Cherokee Heritage Service Clubs. A Tribal Youth Council will act as ambassadors to expand service-learning into new school sites and an Elders' Council will advise teachers and students on cultural values such as sharing, respect, cooperation, and inclusion. Primary partnerships will be with the Cherokee Heritage Center, the Cultural Resource Center, Boys and Girls Club, and local museums, libraries, and civic organizations. The program will also sponsor service-learning events in conjunction with Global Youth Service Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and the Cherokee Nation Education Summit.

Summary: St. Stephens Indian School Educational Association, Inc. will involve 60 participants at St. Stephens Indian School (SSIS) and 40-60 adult volunteers in Learn and Serve America projects. Students in grades 6, 7, and 8 will research the Northern Arapaho tribal history and the land and animals that sustained the Northern Arapaho people. They, along with faculty and community members, will create a museum exhibit on the history of the Northern Arapaho tribe and its folk art and crafts. The Wyoming Wildlife and Heritage Center in Thermopolis, Wyoming has agreed to house the exhibit. The program will partner with The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, including travel to the Smithsonian to study the artifacts of the Northern Arapaho people.