Awarded Grants

This project will create access to Indigenous seeds for tribal communities in NM, leverage existing relationship with tribal youth councils, and increase the amount of fresh fruits and vegetables grown. This will increase knowledge-sharing of seed drying and saving to sustain traditional tribal food systems.

The KTRCD through this Regeneration of Fishing project on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. Hupa people reside along the Trinity River have relied the salmon migration for subsistence since time immemorial. This project will increase the knowledge of fishing by making nets, setting nets, and processing fish for next generation.

This project will leverage the ability to utilize language learning resources and increase community access to learning the Keres language/ways of knowing. This project will also create an opportunity for Indigenous children to plan and participate in a Food Sovereignty conference where they will learn more about native foods.

This project will help increase community holistic wellness and food sovereignty participation through (re)connecting our local Native youth and families to traditional foodways. This directly cultivates sustainable and healthy local Native communities by revitalizing Native assets of food management, cultural lifeways, and intergenerational knowledge-sharing.

This project will allow the Agriculture Department to create an advertising campaign to increase the number of regional schools and restaurants as customers for products from the Seneca Nation’s farm, Gakwi:yo:h Farms. The farm will leverage its reputation for high-quality fruits, vegetables, and meat to increase its customer base.

This project will increase food security for the Bering Strait Region by creating a model for local food production and distribution that will leverage the resources of Pilgrim Hot Springs to improve the availability of locally-grown food distributed within the region.

This project will expand a one-acre community garden to create a diverse five-acre growing space that incorporates traditional foods, fruits, and vegetables to increase access to fresh, locally grown, and culturally relevant foods within the Stockbridge-Munsee Community.

This project will provide valuable data regarding indigenous food security, which in turn can be leveraged to advocate for the creation of programs to retain and enhance food sovereignty for tribal citizens. It will also utilize existing human capital in relation to the preparation and preservation of traditional foods.

Using permaculture, this project will increase local food system growth and will leverage resources to revitalize and expand the existing tribal garden to create a tribal seed bank, develop a food processing station, and distribute tribal family growing kits to nourish the land and the People’s bodies.

Develop a program that exercises Tribal food sovereignty and aids in the development of a Tribal Food Code that will provide financial sustainability to the Traditional Foods and Culture Programs; create greater access to traditional foods, bolster Tribal food security and, increase Tribal pride in our cultural cuisine.