AKWESASNE -- Akwesasne Boys and Girls Club is getting a $49,756 grant for a project titled, "The Documentation of Mohawk Traditional and Medicinal Uses of Aquatic Furbearer Mammals." The grant, from …
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AKWESASNE -- Akwesasne Boys and Girls Club is getting a $49,756 grant for a project titled, "The Documentation of Mohawk Traditional and Medicinal Uses of Aquatic Furbearer Mammals."
The grant, from the state Department of Environmental Conservation Environmental Justice Community Impact Grants program, is for development of an education program for Mohawk youth about traditional uses of furbearing mammals and environmental threats to those species.
The grants program aims to help communities understand and mitigate environmental harms or risks to improve quality of life.
This grant is one of 24 statewide announced by DEC.