Pueblo of San Felipe

The ultimate purpose of the program is to 1) Support Pueblo of San Felipe farmers to continue planting and growing traditional vegetable or row crops and also forage crops for livestock. Despite uncertainty with water availability and the challenges that farmers face it is vitally important to continue the Pueblo’s traditional agricultural way of life. 2) We need to plant white and blue corn because the community will need the corn for food and traditional purposes, and so that we can generate more seeds and replenish seed store for next year. 3) In the face of ongoing drought and climate uncertainty we need to incorporate soil building and cover cropping so that the Pueblo’s soil can support the community.

The Pueblo of San Felipe will create a Co-Stewardship Agreement with the Bureau of Land Management for highly culturally sensitive ancestral tribal land within the Pueblo's exterior boundaries held by the BLM. We seek to control access to our cultural resources, increase preservation of paleontological resources, and retain Pueblo culture.

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This project will help youth increase capacity of traditional plants and animals by utilizing elder’s knowledge and life experiences. Our youth will retain lessons learned from elder mentors through experiential learning and the creation of documents that will remain as part of a library of teachings for future generations.

This project will increase local control over data on the local food system. This project will increase data driven knowledge and create community plans based on data collected from a community food sovereignty assessment.

The ultimate purpose of the Intergenerational Project is to 1) create a stronger bond between San Felipe youth and elders, 2) significantly increasing our youth's knowledge of our language and traditional ways of life, 3) utilizing the life experiences of our elders to help our youth understand the importance of our native culture, and 4) benefiting our elders by giving them a sense of responsibility and contribution, increasing their quality of life.