2021
Start-up grant
2021 Start-up grant
$5,000
Baskets Back Home
Bishop, CA
Community Partners
Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Bishop Community
Funding Area
Description
The ultimate purpose is to 1) Increase the work of repatriation, leveraging a really old concept for cultural sovereignty. We will 2) utilize indigenous knowledge & practice, learning from people who have been doing this work a long time. To 3) increase participation in repatriation work, we will offer an online portal of educational resources supporting community work to 4) Retain the role of basket weavers and regalia holders, returning care taking responsibility to the indigenous peoples. Lastly, 4) this project will increase community resources for knowledge keeping, creating opportunity for healing for all people, including setters.