Awarded Grants

The purposes of this project are to create for visitors at the Tribe’s Bear River Cultural Center an educational kiosk to explain the Tribe’s past and present use of food resources, increase awareness of the Tribe’s natural animal farms, and restore natural habitat and food sources on this Tribal land.

This community project will create food sustainability and distribution, add leveraging to increase traditional/cultural food availability, add to current seed bank for conservation and utilization will provide a building capacity to better manage, educate, control and conserve resources our Tribal Elders and Youth can have access to traditional/culturally fresh foods.

Ka Ipu Makani Cultural Heritage Center’s Huliamahi Loipunawai Farming Education and Training Project aims to increase the number of kalo farmers and locally produced kalo/poi on Molokai, while expanding restoration and stewardship efforts of traditional loipunawai food systems on island.

This project will increase healthy food distribution in our Native community. PPN will utilize staff Dietitian and Gardener, to conduct educational gardening and cooking classes for Tribal Citizens, youth and community members. Individuals will learn and retain gardening instruction and create home garden for food sustainability within their households.

This project will help to increase the connection to traditional foods and seed sovereignty for women and tribal families by providing skill building and education on how to grow traditional foods. This will also leverage existing initiatives that have been developed which work to center seed sovereignty and traditional foods.

This project has focused on protecting native Hawaiian producers and providing native foods directly to our native community. The origination of a CSA program is a new venture and native Hawaiian producers are embracing the new form of marketing in order to survive and grow.

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This project will create a food hub to increase access to fresh and local foods by utilizing the market channels opened by the farmers market in light of state policy changes. It also leverages data collected via a food sovereignty assessment to create a strategic plan for the agriculture department.

Yakani Ekelanna seeks to create an opportunity for UHN and its tribal members to utilize existing tribal lands as a source of sustainable traditional foods and medicinal herbs for community use, while increasing tribal/individual food sovereignty and retaining traditional agricultural and herbalism practices.

This project will create unprecedented connections between tiers of the local food system to integrate purebred Fort Peck buffalo into local grocery stores at an affordable price. The project will leverage available data and personnel expertise to increase the presence of buffalo in the culture of the Fort Peck Reservation.