Awarded Grants

The Sequoia Point Rematriation project will create a cultural easement for Sogorea Te' Land Trust on four acres of Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland, California, develop an outdoor gathering center for cultural activities and facilitate ecological restoration, returning the land to Indigenous care.

COVID-19 Response

Our outlined project will seek to achieve the following overall goal: to provide Indigenous communities in South Central Texas with increased access to food and education surrounding traditional foodways.

This project will create a framework to enable strong and sustainable growth of our organization and increase our information for proper management of our current land holdings.

COVID-19 Response

This project will enable our community to engage the Elders and youth in maintaining the indigenous control over land, water, and traditional ecological knowledge within our communities. this will create a positive and inspirational result for our next generation of land management leaders to become the best stewards of land.

This project leverages community food research underway for a 25 year plan identifying target activities to increase healthy and traditional foods available at tribally managed food access venues and private homes. To utilize human capital, the project offers reciprocal engagement opportunities: community tiller service, farmers market support, and promotions.

COVID-19 Response

Support traditional ecological knowledge practices including cultural burn activities which will foster continued connection to the Tribe’s ancestral land.

This project will create a local healthy food system by encouraging community members and market vendors to utilize local foods, traditional recipes and knowledge to increase healthier lifestyles. This will leverage community members to purchase fresh food from our market, become a farmers market vendor, or start their own garden.