Awarded Grants

This project will increase tribal environmental asset control on or near Native lands.

General Operating Support

Increase food sovereignty and access to nutritious foods by opening a Tribal Food Pantry. Operating a Tribal Food Pantry pantry will decrease dependence on off-reservation pantries and provide consistent food access to at-risk members of the community.

Conference sponsorship to support an event being held to Honor and Celebrate the Return of Ancestral Corn Seeds to the Navajo Nation in May 2023.

Our program is designed to provide a safe space for the community to come learn about traditional Haudenosaunee agricultural methods of planting, growing, harvesting, seed keeping, food preparation, food storage, tool making, and crafting.

This project will increase tribal environmental asset control on or near Native lands.

Program Opportunity Statement (Recommended 300 words or less) Naedc is in the 2nd year of implementing a youth leadership initiative. Which is focused on creating more opportunities for the youth to learn, gain or acquire Aaniiih and Nakoda cultural-based knowledge, skills, and ways of being, in order to help empower them to live healthier lives. On the Ft. Belknap Indian reservation there is one cultural camp hosted on the North end. We want to in collaboration with other tribal programs serving our youth, provide and host a cultural camp on the South end of the reservation. August 2022 was the 1st annual Wasay Wakpa cultural camp in Lodgepole, MT. This year we plan to host cultural camps in LodgePole again plus in the Mission Canyon, outside of Hays, MT. The Cultural camp creates a space for all youth and their families to come together outdoors and to engage in various cultural-based activities such as making arts & crafts, native games, storytelling, ceremonies, traditional ethno botany, language building, poetry, and talking circles.

This project responds to the critical food shortages by further developing the capacity for elders and community members to grow food. It utilizes a combination of demonstration and on-site assistance to successfully develop new gardens. Impact data will include food grown and changes in participant attitudes toward fresh foods.

This project will help create educational food gardens that are sustainable and beneficial to the land through the utilization of local resources. Community members will have the opportunity to learn the process of site preparation, planting, nurturing, harvesting, and preserving of traditional and non-traditional foods that relies on harvested rainwater.

Program Opportunity Statement (Recommended 300 words or less) The PNW Canoe Journey takes place every year and some of our board members suggested we attend the festivities in July. By building a kayak, we will be able to not just attend, but participate. This grant will allow us to not only build a traditional watercraft, but bring our local Attuan’s together and learn a traditional skill.