Awarded Grants

The ultimate purpose of the Quapaw Internship Program is to retain local talent for the Quapaw Tribe’s workforce by creating opportunities for interns to increase their knowledge of and gain hands-on experience in their agriculture program of interest.

The WRDF Agriculture Initiative will help retain and increase the Native farming and ranching industries through a series of technical assistance workshops designed to increase capacity building and capital access for Native farmers and ranchers on and around the Wind River Reservation.

The project will provide a much needed service on the reservation by helping retain and control livestock on public roadways and other public areas considered trespass. Currently, there is no designated area or facility to keep impounded livestock thus making it very difficult to manage and maintain nuisance animals.

This program will create hands on learning experiences for beginning and future farmers at the Stockbridge-Munsee Community through eleven workshops and tours, along with opportunities for the community’s youth to gain year-round experience growing vegetables. This program will help increase community members control and involvement in the local food system.

Utilizing the microbiology, a regenerative farming principle, is the organizations primary premise for increasing nutrient density of foods cultivated in the southwest. The organization intentionally incorporates Native American cosmology, traditional stories, and terminology to leverage teachings that help contextualize and incorporate a description of the microbiology in Native languages.