Awarded Grants

The objective of the land program is to build their land base and protect cultural and natural resources of available land within the Tribe’s aboriginal territory by leveraging assets in order to create a community forest. This would help fulfill 3 of 12 priorities of their Tribal Environmental Plan (2021)

This project will help increase access to fresh fruits and vegetables for tribal members by creating small-scale hydroponic demonstration sites to provide food and training. It will leverage existing infrastructure by partnering with entities that serve key cohorts of the Muscogee Nation: children; youth; Elders; language preservation; and chartered communities.

This project will leverage CIMCC’s current efforts to purchase and/or obtain donated oak woodlands to be utilized and controlled by Native community members for traditional food way activities by training CIMCC staff and Native youth to form and develop a new non-profit land trust.

This project will increase access to traditional foods and medicines through gathering, processing, and using them in their homes. We will provide learning opportunities with elders and those who have knowledge of the medicines and foods. This increases their knowledge of ancestral land, foods, and medicines.

This project will bring together historical and current land, environmental, and Yurok people centered data together to demonstrate change over time to inform land restoration and access within Yurok ancestral lands.

We hope to create an organization focused enough to be able to concentrate on the most critical need to preserve our Tongva land and culture, but also expansive enough to be able to respond to the changing and developing needs of our community.

This project will leverage 2021 survey data in which all respondents desired greater access to ancestral lands and traditional resources; increase Native control of ancestral lands through community education on land trusts; utilize NCTCC's technical knowledge to collect and distribute regulatory information about food, medicine, and material resources.

COVID-19 Response

This project will increase the Tribes departmental capacity to complete the goal of reclaiming ancestral lands located at the Clear Lake State Park. By reclaiming this land, the Tribe will be allowed land access for gathering and increase cultural awareness and acknowledgement.