Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship
2021 Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship
Community Partners
Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico
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
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.
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. .
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana
Conference sponsorship for NICWAs 40th Annual Protecting Our Children Conference
Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma
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.
Native Hawaiian