Awarded Grants

This project will provide much-needed support to the newly founded Yurok Tribe Food Sovereignty Division to create new programs and leverage additional funding by allocating staff time for grant research and application preparation, as well as increase community and tribal member participation in determining program priorities through outreach.

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This project will increase the organizational capacity to provide supportive services for tribal elders that will allow them the much-needed support during the COVID 19 pandemic. This will increase our capacity to connect to our tribal elders through a multitude of platforms.

This project will increase the Cultural Center organizational capacity by generating a museum website. During the pandemic, an online and virtual presence is needed to advocate, protect and promote the Cultural heritage and Lifeways of the indigenous people; this includes Indigenous food systems, water, languages, traditional ecological knowledge, and land.

First Nations Development Institute worked with ZYEP on developing their individual donor program, and as part of this TTA we are awarding them a mini-grant to match their individual donor drive

The ultimate purpose of Hunkpati Processors to to create a food supply chain using meat/protein products for our tribal membership especially for the elders and the needy. The members will have access to locally raised high quality beef and buffalo meat that will be processed by our tribal members. We'll do this by leveraging our assets which includes our 7,100 acre Crow Creek Tribal Ranch, 400 plus buffalo herd and 300 plus head of cattle. Future expansion on this property will include a feed lot.

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This project will increase tribal environmental asset control on or near Native lands.