Awarded Grants

The Elders Subsistence Food Program delivers freshly-caught and frozen subsistence seafood to Native Elders and their families in the Prince William Sound region at no cost every month. This project will increase the accessibility of traditional foods by providing wild seafoods and game, and meals prepared from traditionally harvested foods.

This project will create the first on-reservation food bank serving the Hopi reservation to increase the availability of healthy, culturally relevant foods for community. It will also collect data about food insecurity in our unique cultural context, which will be utilized to inform this and future projects.

This project will address the Yuchi community's most critical need which is to create new speakers and restore the natural transmission of the Yuchi language in our homes by focusing on family based immersion.

The project will create a learning environment for language immersion for our youth using our most valuable resource, our elders. The project will also help us retain an audio/visual archive of lessons taught through the program to be used for future lessons.

The ultimate purpose is to create a breastfeeding and first foods program for the Catawba Nation that 1) understands/responds to obstacles to providing breastmilk and nutritious traditional foods, 2) increases access to nutritious traditional foods to pregnant/lactating mothers and infants, and 3) increases breastfeeding through promotional campaigns and lactation support.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) create a project which increases community members knowledge of and experience with traditional foods, thus expanding promotion of our Indigenous food systems, and 2) provide support to expectant and lactating families by providing access to Indigenous foods and a lactation counsellor.