Each community differs in its approach; examples include mapping land bases, managing land donations, fighting for water rights, and incorporating traditional ecological knowledge on land formerly under tribal control.
Protecting the Climate, Healing the Environment The Natural Resources Department of the Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California is ideally positioned to ensure that climate resiliency effor...
In January, First Nations’ California Tribal Fund (CTF) hosted a Stewarding Ancestral Lands Gathering to strengthen connections and build capacity for California-based Native stewardship and pro...
This project seeks to enhance the capacity of the Yurok Tribe to steward lands and waters within the Yurok Reservation and Ancestral Territory that come under Yurok ownership, creating a culturally responsive model for traditional land stewardship.
Returning to Pimu and the Bay: Gabrieleno‑Tongva Marine Stewardship and Monitoring Program will build Tongva-led capacity to access, study, and care for Santa Monica Bay and the Channel Islands through culturally grounded environmental engagement, monitoring, and youth leadership development.
To strengthen our Homelands Dept to lead land return, restoration, and cultural monitoring in our homelands, building stewardship capacity with our regenerative crew lead, trained cultural monitors, and intergenerational knowledge-sharing that guide present and future care for lands and waters.
This project enhances Tribal capacity to participate in two large-scale planning processes that impact Maidu ancestral waterways and surrounding landscapes, supporting tribal sovereignty and meaningful participation in decision-making about control and management of natural and cultural resources.
This project will serve as pilot project to develop Tribal staff ability through speciality trainings and collaborations to increase the use of TEK on Tribal lands. This pilot project will collect baseline data across Tribal lands, identify restoration needs, and continue the use of cultural fire.
Roots and Relations restores community capacity to care for the land as we revitalize an underutilized baseball field into a cultural gathering place, home to the riparian habitat and culturally traditional plants necessary for our heritage and the land to thrive.
