Awarded Grants

This project creates economic opportunity for Diné shepherds, increasing the value/marketability of their Navajo-Churro wool. The project brings Diné grown Navajo-Churro wool products to the e-commerce space, currently dominated by non-Navajo producers. The project further supports/leverages the work being done by DBI to preserve traditional arts and cultural practices.

Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake (HPUL) will create an access database for evaluating current levels of geospatial capacity, improving cultural data management and referrals management workflows, using field data collection and interview data collection techniques to retain Tribal data sovereignty, and building GIS capacity among staff members.

This project will create a friendly and accessible environment where the public can learn about the benefits of good forest stewardship. Often times it is difficult for the untrained eye to discern a healthy forest from a sick forest. This interpretive signage will help us tell that story.

The Māla Hoʻoulu ʻIke programʻs mission is to indulge and inspire the community of Hawaiian Homesteaders and others with agricultural opportunities to grow an educational mindset of a self-sustainable life for their ʻohana and the community. Workshops will be guided by enhancing practices with Hāloa an ancestral food and sibling.

This project will increase the use of traditional foods at current congregate meal sites on Nikolski, St. George, and Atka by providing adequate funding for transportation, fuel, ammunition, and fishing supplies used by village hunters. This will help protect traditional food systems and increase nutritionally dense meals for Elders.

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