Awarded Grants

The project will utilize the newly created immersion curriculum to pilot educational best practices in the classroom, create a immersion teacher training strategy, increase access to high quality professional development, and leveraging staff and resources while transitioning from a program of SBC to a community serving school through SRCDC.

This project will increase awareness of the effects climate change has on shellfish aquaculture and create policy around shellfish aquaculture that will help tribal departments maintain and expand upon shellfish populations for sustenance and commercial endeavors. They wish to educate the community on the benefits traditional diets

The project leverages youth-lead research and educational resources to create policy options to facilitate increased tribal community access to and control of traditional food places. The tribal communities will retain the traditional food ways by utilizing them and members will have better health outcomes through gathering and consuming traditional foods.

We leverage experience gained from USDA Food Security (Karuk Food Policy adoption, Food System Assessment publication) and USDA Farm-to-School projects (Native Health Curriculum) for this proposal, whose ultimate purpose is to increase the health of Native peoples and strengthen tribal food sovereignty.

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The intent of the Spirit Lake Food Distribution Program (SLFDP) Community Food Systems Project is to create a community-wide, multifaceted approach to leverage and fortify local food systems and to increase market opportunities by creating a community farmers market on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation.

This project will leverage resources available through federal and state funds for the purchase of traditional foods. It will create access to these foods and increase the participation of tribal members in the use of traditional foods. As well as helping the Tribe to retain knowledge of traditional foods.

To develop and then expand a community garden greenhouse while enhancing our tribal capacity to increase food efficiencies and food production & distribution through new market channels.

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