Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship
2022 Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship
Community Partners
Cheesh-Na Tribe (formerly the Native Village of Chistochina)
Cheesh-Na Tribe (formerly the Native Village of Chistochina)
Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah
This project will increase our organization's ability to increase our administrative capacity building with strategic planning, purchase needed accounting software and hire an accounting consultant, and attend trainings and conferences related to livestock improvement and USDA NRCS conservation practices.
Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana
Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico
Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah
The primary objective is to provide quality livestock water to our ranchers which will produce high quality beef and to maintain healthy livestock animals and to utilize conservation practices that will sustain our grazing lands for generations to come.
Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South Dakota
Inter-Tribal
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. .
The Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota (Bois Forte Band; Fond du Lac Band; Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; Mille Lacs Band; White Earth Band)
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.
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana