Awarded Grants

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.

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.

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.