Awarded Grants

The requested grant funds purchase two coolers and one commercial freezer for the Food Sovereignty Initiative, to enhance education and sustainability outreach efforts. The coolers will be used for eggs from the poultry program, as well as vegetables from the model farm program, the freezer will store bison meat.

This project will help retain the food pantry food distributions in next four months as there will be a increase on affected families in the community as they can utilize our services every week on food distribution days.

NDNTA will create a new nonprofit tour operator, Native American Cultural Tours (NACT) to create economic opportunities within North Dakota’s Indigenous communities that protect our culture and landscapes, including native grasslands.

This project will increase tribal environmental asset control on or near Native lands.

Wildfire recovery efforts and forest restoration

Support costs associated with the expansion of the Tribe’s current community garden

This project will increase the capacity of Sicangu CDC to utilize local and tribally produced food products by creating new cold storage infrastructure, leveraging existing health, immersion education, and food sovereignty programs to increase tribal control over local foods supply chains.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) create an event that celebrates the Keex’ Kwaan Tlingit Way of Life, by 2) increase youth participation and education in the harvest, processing, and preservation of their traditional foods, and 3) retain community knowledge regarding foodways by continuing the intergenerational transmission of knowledge. Further, this project will help us leverage and expand OVK’s pre-existing environmental programs by engaging summer youth workforce in the event, helping to sustain the community’s way of life and cherished resources in perpetuity.

This project will create a space for community members to utilize for harvesting, processing, and storage of cultural and traditional foods which will create an pathway towards retaining cultural, traditional and modern food practices towards developing a local food system.