Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians

This project will enable our organization to create a culturally based, print and online outreach campaign that will continue to educate our vulnerable community members on how to protect themselves from COVID-19 while protecting our tribal cultural program's staff and tribal participants.

This project will improve Chumash food sovereignty by creating tribal policy to utilize tribal lands for healthy and traditional food production in order to increase access to healthy foods. It will also create a food distribution program by leveraging existing tribal resources through training of staff to become master gardeners.

General operating support

I want attend the conference to get ideas on developing new language and cultural programs. I want to retain new knowledge to help increase participation and help protect our cultural assets. This knowledge help with current programs and in creating new ones.This will strengthening our cultural assets.

This project will help revitalize traditional basket weaving of the Chumash culture by offering monthly classes to the tribal community. To bring back this traditional skill we need to have consistency with a master teacher to build confidence and continuity. This will increase participation and interest in Chumash basketry skills.