San Carlos Apache Tribe

Covid-19 Response

COVID-19 Response

This project will create and implement traditional Apache knowledge-based resources to increase physical health, and a sense of identity and purpose among Tribal youth, by leveraging (1) a database of ancestral knowledge and analysis gathered over the past 30 years, and (2) existing grants and resources by partnering with programs.

The ultimate purpose of this project is to 1)create a detailed description and nutritional analysis of the pre-Reservation Western Apache diet; 2) retain invaluable traditional knowledge, and use this knowledge to inform specific strategies to maintain both physical health and ecologically sustainable lifestyles; 3)make this knowledge available for community members to utilize and leverage in order to build health-related programs and businesses in Apache communities; and 4)increase the knowledge of community members, especially youth, of traditional Apache lifestyles and the traditional relationship with the natural world in general, and with food in particular.