Awarded Grants

We will contribute to community health and give economic opportunities by cultivating native foods and beekeeping, supporting farmers with supplemental income to grow food. We will create pathways for elders to share knowledge of recipes, medicine, cooking & food preservation for maternal health.

Our program strengthens the survival of Ojibwe cultural skills. Our Seasonal Harvest Feasts revitalize Indigenous knowledge by gathering community members to practice traditional harvesting. As food must be gathered, so must the community to learn how these foods were used in meals and celebrations.

Healthy Start empowers Indigenous families in urban Detroit by revitalizing first foods, supporting maternal wellness, and strengthening cultural ties—ensuring that Native parents can nourish, raise, and care for their children in ways that honor ancestral knowledge and uphold food sovereignty.

The Kupeke Fishpond project boosts food security by restoring Hawaiian aquaculture. It will remove invasives, raise native fish, and revive a coconut grove. Community and youth involvement throughout will reconnect people with ancestral food systems, promoting sustainability and resilience.

This program strengthens Native food sovereignty by expanding land-based education, entrepreneurship, and access to capital. Through workshops and intergenerational learning, the project supports Native producers in growing, selling, sustaining culturally rooted agricultural practices.

The purpose of the Spirit Lake Forest Restoration Project is to reduce wildfire danger after a severe spruce bark beetle infestation and to restore forest health and subsistence activities through a reforestation project on approximately ten acres of Tribal land. (Please see attached document).