Organized Village of Kake (OVK)

The ultimate purpose of this project is to reestablish yaaw (herring) populations near Keex Kwaan (Kake, Alaska and the surrounding areas) for sustainable community harvest, to revitalize the coastal ecosystems that provide critical, sacred foods, and support our traditional way of life.

The ultimate purpose of this project is to increase capacity at Organized Village of Kake to participate in USFS grant programs like BIL and IRA by 1) leveraging existing relationships with grant consultants and project collaborators who will 2) create trainings and mentorship for our tribal staff as they plan projects, apply for funding, and manage their grants, allowing us to 3) retain our employees longer and expand our Natural Resource projects.

This project will support a third year of leveraging funding to increase the impact of our shellfish garden program to create and retain jobs that support climate preparedness utilizing education, training, monitoring, and strategic planning.

General Operating support for Organized Village of Kake Natural Resources Department

This project will support the transportation of cockles provided by the Alutiiq Pride Marine Institute and transplantation in the Kake shellfish garden.

This project will support a second year of leveraging funding to increase the impact of our shellfish garden program to create and retain jobs that support disaster preparedness utilizing education, training, monitoring, and strategic planning.

Travel Scholarship to attend NAFWS Annual Conference

Bezos Professional Development

Bezos Professional Development

Bezos Professional Development

Bezos Professional Development

Bezos Professional Development

This project will leverage existing funding in our Natural Resources department and increase the impact of our ongoing programs through expanding our clam garden pilot program to create jobs that support disaster preparedness, initially through education, training, monitoring, and strategic planning.

COVID-19 Response

The ultimate purpose is to 1) create an event that celebrates the Keex’ Kwaan Tlingit Way of Life, by 2) increase youth participation and education in the harvest, processing, and preservation of their traditional foods, and 3) retain community knowledge regarding foodways by continuing the intergenerational transmission of knowledge. Further, this project will help us leverage and expand OVK’s pre-existing environmental programs by engaging summer youth workforce in the event, helping to sustain the community’s way of life and cherished resources in perpetuity.

COVID-19 Response

To increase community access to traditional Tlingit foods by re-establishing the seasonal tradition of growing Tlingit potatoes alongside fish camps on Kuiu and Kupreanof Islands, so the community can re-assert their relationship to ancestral fishing grounds, enhance food security, improve intergenerational knowledge transmission and increase consumption rates of traditional foods.