Fort Peck Community College

The Purpose of this Project is to create a market for traditional foods and teas in our local, on-Reservation community, to provide education surrounding ethical harvesting of our local native plants that are used as traditional foods and teas by creating a ritual of reciprocity.

This project will preserve and sustain the Fort Peck Community College's traditional food program by adding a refrigerator, dehydrator, and traditional gathering equipment necessary to be successful.

This project will create unprecedented connections between tiers of the local food system to integrate purebred Fort Peck buffalo into local grocery stores at an affordable price. The project will leverage available data and personnel expertise to increase the presence of buffalo in the culture of the Fort Peck Reservation.

Our goal is to increase participants, so they stand to benefit from implementation of programming that contributes to positive community by providing residents of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation with retained Agricultural and Cultural knowledge as it relates to our homelands, for continued survival and growth in times of uncertainty.

Our goal is to increase participants, so they stand to benefit from implementation of programming that contributes to positive community by providing residents of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation with retained Agricultural and Cultural knowledge as it relates to our homelands, for continued survival and growth in times of uncertainty.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) create a language learning environment nurtured by families, which is not available to students anywhere in the community that will promote the cultural value of generosity and 2) to build a foundation of language speakers and material that will assist in the retention of the tribal language by targeting youth and indigenous first language speakers. Motivated by the Piegan Institue co-founder Darrell Kipp, the S.L.P. is driven by action rather than apprehension.