Awarded Grants

This project will support WPHWs’ food sovereignty team to increase accessibility of traditional and nutritious food options, including protein, for Wabanaki communities. We will also supply meal kits called TraDishes (traditional dishes), that include ingredients and recipe cards to families.

This project will help create opportunities for local Native families to deepen their land-based connections to traditional foods & plant medicines while protecting their rest and healing during postpartum by leveraging partnerships to deliver nourishing meals to their doors.

Buffalo Youth Nation Project restores Indigenous food sovereignty by nourishing Native Youth, revitalizing bison lifeways, and leveraging cultural, ecological, and community assets to heal, empower and sustain Native Nations.

The Bering Strait faces challenges to food security due to high costs, supply chain disruptions, and challenges to subsistence practices. Two Kawerak programs in food production, both farming and reindeer husbandry, will elevate local, Tribal agriculture in policymaking to help address these needs.

This project will support traditional food harvesters and procure supplies for the processing of traditional subsistence foods. This will leverage existing support and funding for creating a gathering space for ceremony, processing, cold storage, trade, knowledge sharing, and healing.