Awarded Grants

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.

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.

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.

These funds will be used to build our capacity to raise funds nationally from tribes and organizations and support expenses for travel and lodging when travel is necessary for in-person presentations.

Our goal is to increase participants, so they stand to benefit from implementation of programming that contributes to positive community by providing residents of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation with retained Agricultural and Cultural knowledge as it relates to our homelands, for continued survival and growth in times of uncertainty.