Awarded Grants

General operating for the continued protection and preservation of cultural lands and resources.

Support for the 2022 Breath of Life Archival Institute’s cultural linguists honoraria.

General Operating Support

General Operating Support for Fire Relief

The Walker River Paiute Tribe created the Food Sovereignty Program to retain cultural assets, leverage tribal partnerships, protect traditional nutritional practices, increase food security, and build infrastructure to exercise tribal control of our food systems.

The American Indian Center of Chicago will create the Food is Medicine program, which will increase access to Indigenous foods and cultivate improve knowledge of food sovereignty and Indigenous food practices for elders, families and youth in Chicago’s intertribal urban Native community.

SFIC’s free, bi-monthly, drive-thru Food Distributions continue to address food insecurity among Native Americans within Santa Fe County. We intend to utilize our food distributions to collect more data, and identify any other needs that SFIC can either assist with, or navigate clients through our network for more support services.

This grant increases our capacity to improve community health by building on traditional tribal food systems and offering gathering, preparing and preserving opportunities to tribal families who may not have those experiences. The funds leverage existing investments and budgets, engage extended families, moving us to sustainability and mutual self-help.

This project will utilize a hydroponic growing container to support food box program(s), increasing access to healthy foods by Tribal members. After having a proper site location and utilities, the container will help to increase the availability of vegetables through hydroponics in a region with a short growing season.

This program has been created to ensure the protection, conservation, and access of traditional cultural resources of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT). By utilizing traditional ecological knowledge and providing regular distributions, we are revamping the traditional food systems, tribal values, and cultures of the Flathead Reservation.