Awarded Grants

This project will create a pathway for our members to retain lost knowledge of traditional planting and harvesting practices. It will create a living link between our ancestors and our future generations. It will serve our ultimate goal of restoring indigenous food systems that empower self-determination.

This project will improve Chumash food sovereignty by creating tribal policy to utilize tribal lands for healthy and traditional food production in order to increase access to healthy foods. It will also create a food distribution program by leveraging existing tribal resources through training of staff to become master gardeners.

This project will leverage partnerships with Tribal farmers, farmer’s markets and Tribal consumers to increase control of their food system, create economic opportunities, improve health outcomes, and create a model for Washington Tribes to increase access to traditional and culturally significant foods.

This project will result in the creation and delivery of a reservation-wide Food Assessment to assess the current state of Hopi food and farming practices. We will leverage the resulting data to support the development of a collaborative action plan to measurably increase food sovereignty over the next ten years.

This project will leverage the capacity of the Bay Mills Indian Community to increase access to, and retention of, indigenous agricultural and naturally-occurring seeds through the creation of a seed bank and seed library. This will increase food availability and access, allowing more control over diet to support healthy lifestyles.

This project will increase local food production on Molokai by training emerging native leaders in traditional agriculture and natural resource management skills needed to restore a 1-acre plot at the Keawanui Learning Site into a community food garden. This project increases the community's access to food production that is sustainable.

This project will leverage the new collaboration between the CTUIR Department of Natural Resources and Yellowhawk Community Wellness by increasing the capacity and technical assistance to provide the CTUIR community with data, knowledge, resources, and long-term strategic planning around CTUIR First Foods and Food Systems.

To increase community access to traditional Tlingit foods by re-establishing the seasonal tradition of growing Tlingit potatoes alongside fish camps on Kuiu and Kupreanof Islands, so the community can re-assert their relationship to ancestral fishing grounds, enhance food security, improve intergenerational knowledge transmission and increase consumption rates of traditional foods.

The purpose of this project is to increase Oneida control of its agricultural system and its national sovereignty through increased productivity and agricultural income.

The Poeh would like to create new training opportunities for Native Artists with virtual trainings as well as create a database of video training resources during this Covid-19 pandemic.