Oneida Nation

General

This project will work to increase acreage of healthy soils in our operations. In our management of our livestock and white corn, this will increase bioavailable nutrients for our crops and animals, resulting in higher nutritional value in our hay, pasture, beef herd, and white corn.

Strengthening Oneida Nation’s Protein Processing Capacity

This project will increase the availability of traditional foods, fresh foods, and meals for Oneida Tribal members requiring nutritional support, as well as increase the income for traditional farmers and participant food knowledge.

Our goal is to create a business/design plan for a cannery processing facility. We will use these plans to be efficient and effective in operational plans and expectations with financials, demand, and community need, and adjust accordingly to ensure that we are supporting growth of our Nation’s food sovereignty efforts.

Our ultimate purpose is to determine if it would be feasible for the Oneida Nation to develop and successfully operate a meat processing business on the Oneida Nation reservation

COVID-19 Response

This project will increase the number of proficient first language speakers within the Oneida community by creating an immersion-only classroom that utilizes the current On^yote’aka Tsi Nitwaw^not^ and Head Start “As it happens” curriculum.

COVID-19 Response

The purpose of this project is to increase Oneida control of its agricultural system and its national sovereignty through increased productivity and agricultural income.

Community Works! is series of 6 workshops created to cultivate, inspire, and support people who work to make a difference in their community. Participants will increase their knowledge of current trends in not for profit management, digital media, and fundraising, ultimately strengthening and leveraging the talent and passion in Oneida.

General support grant for Food Summit

This conference will create opportunities for our two Community Programs Coordinators to network with other Native American organizations in the country. This will help us better utilize our artistic capital. It will give them an opportunity to learn how to increase our capacity of using art as commerce.

The project will focus on increasing the skills and capacity of Wisconsin Indians and their tribes to create and produce value-added products as a means of economic development. To teach them to utilize equipment in a joint use process that will expand the availability of equipment more broadly.

This project will increase the number of proficient first language speakers within the Oneida community by creating an immersion-only classroom that utilizes the current On^yote’aka Tsi Nitwaw^not^ and Head Start “As it happens” curriculum.

This project will retain Oneida arts of silver, pottery, and baskets and create new artists for the future by utilizing master artists from the Native community to teach apprentices and youth their art forms. This will increase their level of artistic professionalism and create community support for current artists.

This project will increase the number of proficient first language speakers within the Oneida community by creating an immersion-only classroom that utilizes the current On^yote’aka Tsi Nitwaw^not^ and Head Start “As it happens” curriculum.

This project will help ONAP staff utilize digital technology and social media more effectively in order to support artists, the arts, and raise awareness and participation in the arts. This project will also help us increase public awareness of Native American artists and programs.

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

The purpose of this project is to increase the participation of youth in healthy foods, and to expose them to financial literacy as entrepreneurs. Increasing participation will be evident through the outreach component to include Lac Courte Oreilles youth and the youth that will be touched in each semester at school. With diabetes being so prevalent on Indian reservations, this program will allow the youth to share their knowledge of healthy foods, and to have a product that is their own -- the Very Berry Healthy Snack mix. There is nothing more lasting than investing in our youth.

We will create a structure of collaboration and support for all First Nations' people to flourish.

The ultimate purpose of attending the NAASA conference and developing a network with its members is to 1.) raise awareness and understanding of Native American aesthetics by providing art criticism with a cultural foundation and 2.) increasing the patronage of Native American artists. This project will leverage our annual literary journal as a public source of art critque. Native American writers will be engaged in art critique and their reviews will be published in our annual journal.

The Oneida Young Entrepreneurs in Agriculture Program is geared toward High School age students to 1) increase knowledge on the Farm to Plate concepts with the development and marketing of a food product; 2) develop entrepreneurial skills in business through cost analysis, marketing, presentations, and sales of the product to the local school and marketplace as a fundraising program; 3) promote healthy foods and nutrition to other youth through this program.

The Oneida Youth Food System Entrepreneur Program will address three key issues: 1) creating a system where youth educate other youth on healthy local food; 2) creating a sustainable youth business utilizing website development; 3) increasing the youths experience with technology and economics by providing them with incentives to participate in the program. Throughout this process, with adult supervision and a specialized curriculum, this project will teach business management and financial record keeping associated with the purchasing and processing, and profits from selling ag products.