Native Food Sovereignty

This project advances Urban Indian Food Sovereignty in two parts: first, demonstration growing, foodways workshops and community feasts share knowledge to inform the collective build out of long-term foodways access in a Native orchard/foodways walking trail on our TNAS-managed conservation acreage.

The Yurok Tribe Food Sovereignty Program will implement a culturally rooted initiative to support Yurok mothers, infants, and young children by increasing access to traditional first foods through the distribution of seasonal Traditional Food and Healthy Food boxes.

This project revives imu culture in the Waimānalo Hawaiian Homestead community, strengthening cultural identity, food self-sufficiency, and shared learning. Through traditional earth oven practice, we nurture connection, mālama ʻāina, and the passing of knowledge between generations.

Through our Tribal partnership with the Yankton Sioux Tribe and with community and Elder-led governance, we provide nutrient-dense traditional foods and intergenerational knowledge to ensure the health and self-determination of Native mothers and infants.

The ultimate purpose is to increase traditional knowledge, improve the health of parents and their babies (i.e. mental, spiritual, physical, emotional), leverage current resources for birthing nursing parents and lactation professionals.

The purpose of the Breastfeeding and First Foods project is to increase breastfeeding duration in Tribal Communities in Wisconsin through a variety of educational and support initiatives.

This project will convert a hoop house into a year-round greenhouse for the Pueblo of Zia, incorporating a horizontal hydroponic system alongside soil production to grow culturally important crops like chile, corn, squash, and herbs, supporting local food production and community food sovereignty.

Ukwakhwa will pilot expanded production of Haudenosaunee heirloom corn and beans to strengthen seed sovereignty, teach scalable growing methods, and increase culturally relevant food access for tribal elders through the Tribal Elder Food Box program.

This project will expand culturally grounded maternal health and first foods programming for urban Native families in Detroit by increasing access to traditional food knowledge, lactation support, and Indigenous parenting practices.

This project strengthens governance of food systems on the Navajo Nation by supporting Diné women ranchers as decision-makers in land, livestock, and food policy. Through strategic convenings, participants will position women's leadership within tribal food governance structures.

This project supports a traditional meat harvesting and processing camp where Nez Perce families hunt on ancestral lands and learn hide tanning, meat cutting, and preservation. The camp strengthens food sovereignty by sharing traditional food knowledge across generations.

This project advances Indigenous First Foods sovereignty by expanding culturally grounded Milk Medicine education, supporting Indigenous parents and caregivers, and strengthening intergenerational knowledge that sustains maternal, infant, and community health and protective factors.

The Traditional Birth Work Gathering serves to revitalize and reclaim traditional Lakota Birth Practices along side Traditional foods and land protection. Our gathering is a space for community healing and learning. This project has been a catalyst in the Indigenous Birth Justice movement.

The project will expand maternal wellness services by restoring Indigenous birthing traditions, nourishing mothers with traditional foods, and strengthening community support from pregnancy through postpartum. By reconnecting families to ancestral knowledge we enhance maternal and infant health.

This project strengthens Indigenous food sovereignty by revitalizing traditional knowledge and culturally rooted systems of care for Native families in Montana, leveraging ancestral teachings on First Foods, lactation, and postpartum healing.

This project will create 14 fee PreK-12 unit plans highlighting indigenous foodways of the midwestern region. It leverages the expertise of three indigenous communities - Jessica Walks First (Menominee), Kim McIver (Ojibwe) and Gina Roxas (Prairie Band Potawatomi) as well Pilot Light teachers.

This project will strengthen Ojibwe food sovereignty by creating seasonal, land-based learning gatherings where community members and schools participate in traditional harvesting, food preparation, and Ojibwe language use tied to berry picking, wild rice, trapping, and hunting-related foodways.

This project revitalizes Native Hawaiian birth and food traditions by expanding culturally grounded maternal and infant care and birthing practices, first foods education, and practitioner training, strengthening community networks and increasing access to traditional foods for families and keiki.

This project strengthens Native food sovereignty by restoring breastfeeding as a sacred First Food, expanding access to culturally grounded lactation support, supplies, and early nutrition education, empowering families to nourish infants through traditional, self-determined food systems from birth.

GPVSC will launch a Native Veteran traditional hunting and food-sharing program that reconnects Veterans to cultural foodways, organizes safe hunting on tribal lands, and distributes harvested game to low-income and elderly Veteran households across Rocky Boy, Blackfeet, and Fort Belknap.

The Alaska Native Birthworkers Community is a community-based group of full spectrum Indigenous birth helpers and reproductive justice advocates organizing to reclaim Indigenous birth practices and to support Native families from preconception through postpartum with culturally-matched care.

Doulas with Dinners provides postpartum meals for Indigenous families in their first month after birth to support healing. These meals incorporate cultural ingredients and reconnection to ancestral foods. We aim to ease postpartum transition, ensuring they feel supported during this sacred time.

This project strengthens Native food sovereignty by building governance infrastructure that supports Native leadership of urban food systems, strengthens land stewardship practices, and connects Indigenous farmers, food initiatives, and community health efforts.

Kwiyagat Native Foods Program will revitalize Ute Mountain Ute traditional foods in school—building youth identity, health, and food knowledge. Through meal integration, gardens, producer-led learning, field trips, and community meals, we strengthen food sovereignty and bring traditional foods back

The Healing Food Traditions Project which will educate expectant and new mothers about Navajo traditional foods that foster a healthy diet. Through the development of an online resource and implementation of 3 workshops, this project will connect families to cultural stories, customs, and knowledge.