Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes

This project will create multiple opportunities for tribal members to learn how to garden, engage in traditional food harvesting, and how to preserve foods. We will utilize traditional knowledge keepers and master gardeners to share information about food systems, restoring our relationships with foods, and increasing tribal members' food sovereignty.

COVID-19 Response

Teach Food is Sacred, Food is Medicine philosophy to the youth/community participants. Increase access to healthy, locally-produced foods. Create a network of local food producers that will be made available and utilized by community members. Create events and curriculum to make traditional food knowledge and practices more commonplace with Salish people. Increase overall health of project participants through food, exercise. and nutrition related information. Leverage resources from other local food sovereignty and youth projects. Create/leverage HJV activities for sustainability and replication in other reservation communities/schools. Create a network with similar FNDI grantees with HJV leadership team to share best practices.