Our goal is to increase the capacity of our staff to be pursue partnerships, funding, and strategically plan for the benefit of our forested ancestral lands and for the Tribal nation through training on grant seeking, writing, and management.
This program supports nearly 4,000 Tribal members while building the Tribe’s organizational capacity to engage with federal partners, manage natural resources, and sustain long-term programming in environmental stewardship through a sustainable food systems.
Our program strengthens forest management and assesses participation in climate markets. This grant will increase capacity, support forest management and carbon project development which integrates our cultural values, while creating marketability through stewardship of our natural resources.
We are committed to revitalizing Nitsitapii (the Real People) ways of knowing, increasingly recognized as vital to climate resilience. We work to restore balance to the land and its inhabitants, leading efforts in historical trauma healing through reconnection and access to land-based practices.
The ultimate purpose is to 1) expand Tribal capacity through a Firewood & Resilience Program Coordinator, 2) reduce hazardous fuels on Kiowa lands, and 3) ensure sustainable firewood access for heating, disaster resilience, and cultural continuity.
Our project will support the reintegration of tribal traditional uses to Santa Fe National Forest. The area of focus will be the 45,000 acre section of the national forest that was illegally taken from the Pueblo of Nambé in 1905.
Our purpose is to 1) expand the Tribe's capacity to implement prescribed fire, habitat restoration and other natural resource management on Tribal lands, 2) enhance participation in regional restoration efforts, 3) participate in habitat restoration decision-making with local partners