Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin

General Operating Support

Covid-19 Response

Covid-19 Response

The purpose is to support the tribal, urban, and peri-urban first nation communities in the Chicago region in reclaiming community control of food systems for their economic, social, and cultural benefit by increased capacity for harvesting, processing, storing and transporting finished wild rice to the Chicago American Indian Center.

This project will increase tribal environmental asset control on or near Native lands.

COVID-19 Response

This project will increase tribal environmental asset control on or near Native lands.

This project will increase tribal environmental asset control on or near Native lands.

Participation in this training will help to enhance and expand current strategies for revitalizing and promoting culture and the arts, native artists, and entrepreneurship. The museum would like to provide opportunities to native artists above and beyond the current offerings for artists to display their crafts, including strategic planning.

Revitalize traditional Menominee arts and increase the community's awareness of traditional Menominee art forms and the arts relate to Menominee history, language and culture. Promote local Native artists and encourage a stronger network of Native artists through strategic planning.

Grants support will increase education related to nutrition education for food distribution on Indian reservation (FDPIR) recipients.

The purpose of this project is 1) to create opportunity for youth to retain the endangered Menominee language, 2) to increase youth familiarity of the language as it identifies them, culturally and spiritually, as Menominee, and 3) to utilize our Elders that are fluent in the language as teachers and facilitators of fun and meaningful activities for youth. Further, this project will leverage/expand outreach efforts to the youth and members of the community, such as project volunteers, resulting in a core base of volunteers committed to sustaining this effort in the future (e.g., planning and decision-making, fundraising, implementation).