Awarded Grants

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.

Our purpose is to create community care through Indigenous mutual aid networks in Oceti Sakowin territory to increase and retain our effort directly aiding tribal members in COVID-19 quarantine and isolation with cooked meals, traditional medicines and foods, and supplies including PPE, 2) utilize and increase this food and medicine effort for the people with community gardens of fruits, vegetables, herbs and traditional medicines of the Oceti Sakowin (14 in progress), increase food security, leverage our base of 350+ families we have assisted over the pandemic to promote traditional and contemporary wicozani (Lakota concept for welllness) in homes and systems.

Program Purpose: The ultimate purpose is to 1) increase holistic healing in indigenous communities through pre and post natal yoga practice 2) retain the tribal language and teachings for future generations and, thus, keep alive a vital aspect of our culture and identity. Further, this will help us leverage existing Ttawaxt services by providing current clientele-Tribes valuable content for their pre and post natal indigenous mothers.

The ultimate purpose of Hopi Relief is to retain the current food and hygiene box distribution program as a long term service for the residents of the Hopi reservation. We will continue to provide monthly service to ensure that we are working steadily toward the ultimate goal of creating a centrally located food pantry and resource building for future daily continuous operation. This project will also increase our outreach to the local Hopi community by expanding our service to local organizations in need of assistance due to tribal government barriers.

This funding opportunity will take our food system to the next level, we have successfully completely 5 years of training and implementing gardening, we are now at a level where would like to grow year around and have proper storing for the vegetables.

This project will utilize traditional knowledge behind the preservation of food through dehydration and provide beneficial data to sustain and conserve financial resources and space, as well as providing healthier meal options for health and wellness and prolonging the shelf life of our program's food resources.

The ultimate purpose is to add funds that will go towards the continued support of our after school program. With the center being opened and closed throughout the year, this school year is vital to getting our kids back on track. Our students and their families have demonstrated great resiliency and we know that the demand for academic assistance is critical.

This grant will allow the Chippewa-Cree Sustainability Agriculture Commission (CCSAC) to construct a root cellar to store ample foods for community consumption. This root cellar will compliment the CCSAC efforts with high tunnel and commercial value added products currently being produced.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) Increase the work of repatriation, leveraging a really old concept for cultural sovereignty. We will 2) utilize indigenous knowledge & practice, learning from people who have been doing this work a long time. To 3) increase participation in repatriation work, we will offer an online portal of educational resources supporting community work to 4) Retain the role of basket weavers and regalia holders, returning care taking responsibility to the indigenous peoples. Lastly, 4) this project will increase community resources for knowledge keeping, creating opportunity for healing for all people, including setters.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) increase the number of work hours of our part-time staff to create additional programs, services and fundraising opportunities which enhance the overall mission, and 2) maintaining the Organization's current and future programs, thereby allowing us to leverage additional resources generated by their efforts to better support our Artists. Further, with increased staff time, our Organizational capacity will be enhanced with the proposed resource development plan through increased grant writing, fundraising, events and the implementation of our WIA Guild membership dues, donations and sponsorships. Generating additional resources, allows us to better leverage other resources.