Awarded Grants

This project will utilize a mobile freezer unit to distribute buffalo meat, and essentially increase the availability of traditional food sources across Texas Indigenous communities.

Our Tribal Food Program will increase the number of Native Americans with access to healthy and traditional foods through our tribal food pantry. The project will also create new intergenerational learning opportunities for Native youth and families within our community kitchen, one of the few for Indigenous people in Texas.

This project will reduce Yankton Sioux food insecurity food sovereignty by leveraging existing services (food pantry, monthly drive-up food boxes, children’s backpack food, and food distribution). A newly-created element will increase food sovereignty through community classes teaching families how to establish/maintain a garden and how to preserve (can/dehydrate) foods.

The project will utilize continued access to local foods through local procurement, increasing food soverignty of the tribe, and agricultural education efforts.It also leverages existing tribal assets to increase healthier food options for indigenous students, who live in a community with high rates of diabetes and other diet-related illnesses.

Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe (PGST) will increase its food bank availability of fresh produce and low-sodium options for health deficiencies and dietary restrictions. This will be achieved by purchasing $9,590 worth of traditional fresh food, and 192 reusable freezer bags plus 3 storage totes totaling $410 to maximize produce shelf-life.

This project will help to increase cultural connection, nutrition education, availability of indigenous foods, and experience preparing recipes using indigenous ingredients through monthly Indigenous Meal Kits delivered to participants receiving primary care, behavioral health care, nutrition education, or cultural services at Butte Native Wellness Center.

This project will increase UAII’s capacity to provide food to the urban Native population in Los Angeles and allow us to create a food-distribution program harkening back to our roots in 1974 Skid Row, where UAII started as a haven for the most vulnerable members of our community.

This project will create additional opportunities for capacity building among the Agriculture Program staff to better serve the food needs of our community as well as increase the health, wellbeing, and quality of the Program’s two flocks of laying hens for the egg program.

This project will enable our organization to utilize existing legal skills to provide additional technical legal assistance to tribes wanting to pursue cooperative agreements for the management of natural resources. The funding will allow NARF and FNDI to increase capacity and serve more tribes.