Tewa Women United

This project supports community education, relationship-building, and advocacy to ensure Native voices in New Mexico are represented in decision-making around tritium venting, groundwater contamination, and increasing industrial development that threatens community and environmental health.

This award will build capacity within the Tewa Women United environmental justice program to support the identified focus areas and activities regarding environmental justice and community health

COVID-19 Response

This project will help to increase the connection to traditional foods and seed sovereignty for women and tribal families by providing skill building and education on how to grow traditional foods. This will also leverage existing initiatives that have been developed which work to center seed sovereignty and traditional foods.

COVID-19 Response Survey

We are about co-creation, about visioning, praying, and calling forward new ways to be in relationship with one another as the world at this moment seems to be taking a backwards spin. As womb-full and heart-full peoples we must call forward vulnerability and authenticity and a deeper healing than we have known. We must continue to come from Love and a space of building connection and belonging together. It is from this place that we are launching our anniversary campaign in 2019. Through this three-year campaign, our goal is to raise $1.5 million which will allow us to: ● Become full owners of our current home space (office building) in Española so that we can offer an enduring connection to the communities we serve ($280,000) ● Renovation and expansion of our building to better meet community needs ($720,000) ● Establishing an Operations and Maintenance Fund ($250,000) ● Establishing a Staff Wellness and Sustainability Fund ($250,000)

General support to transition from NativeGiving.org platform

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Support grant for staff wellness space

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This project will leverage the current Healing Foods Oasis site asset to increase community participation and access healthy native foods and herbs. This unique cross-cultural project will be utilized to educate tribal and rural communities about native agricultural traditions, water efficiencies, and traditional foods and medicines.

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The ultimate purpose is to 1)create spaces for tribal youth in Northern New Mexico to celebrate and experience the teachings and knowledges that exist in their communities, 2)Retain and reclaim fluidity of feminine identity in both mainstream and cultural aspects of power and voice, 3)Increase opportunities for connection to existing cultural teachings through an intergenerational approach. Further, this project will leverage current activities of our A'Gin youth leadership project, federally funded through September 2016, to expand and deepen focus on cultural identity, female leadership, and sense of place and belonging.

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The ultimate purpose is to 1)significantly increase the sense of community belonging among our native youth and men by utilizing caring adults to re-engage youth who may be disconnected from work or school, 2)create opportunities for positive role modeling through shared experiential learning and talking circles on topics related to the ethics and meaning of being a native man. Further, this project will utilize and leverage two our existing projects that focus on healing of intergenerational trauma to retain our tribal lifeways by examining the concepts of patriarchy and native gender roles.