Awarded Grants

The ultimate purpose is to retain tribal knowledge and increase traditional foods, including breastfeeding as the ultimate first traditional food. Further, this project will help utilize and expand the very limited fresh foods available at the tribal convenience store by creating partnership with the Nett Lake farmers market.

The ultimate purpose of this project is to create a specific resource on traditional foods for pregnant and parenting families. By weaving together interviews from traditional knowledge keepers, insights on perinatal nutrition, and accessible modern recipes.... we hope to encourage families as they grow and tend the next generation. .

Conference sponsorship for NICWAs 40th Annual Protecting Our Children Conference

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 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.

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.