Awarded Grants

The project will increase culturally-rooted revenue-generating opportunities and green job creation for native communities in Hawai'i by strengthening indigenous Hawaiian architecture, construction, and masonry as viable industries at the leading edge of green building and community resiliency.

NC is developing necessary infrastructure and capacity to empower Native people to enter the kelp mariculture space by expanding our Community Kelp Seed Nursery which has already created 20-25 jobs in Prince William Sound Alaska. As we scale, we will increase blue-green jobs twofold from this work.

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.

This project will increase access to culturally-relevant, locally-grown meat and produce on Sicangu Makoce. We will achieve this by leveraging the Wolakota Bison Range and our Tribally Supported Agriculture program to provide bison meat and fresh produce to 500 food-insecure families in Rosebud.

By utilizing our contacts with Indigenous farmers and meat producers and leveraging this project with our Regenerative Agriculture Youth Certificate program, we will increase the availability of healthy and traditional foods in Colorado, allowing us to provide for our Indigenous families and elders while teaching youth about traditional food ways.

This project will create infrastructure for Ohe.laku Co-op's families to transform our cache of raw corn into corn mush flour, a value-added product, increasing access to a traditional food and barter opportunities in the region.