Native Agriculture and Food Systems Scholarship
2019 Native Agriculture and Food Systems Scholarship
Community Partners
Cherokee Nation
Cherokee Nation
Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada
Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, California and Arizona
Oglala Sioux Tribe
Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah
This project will increase tribal environmental asset control on or near Native lands.
Nez Perce Tribe
Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Minnesota
This project will leverage resources and increase the value of instruction at the Immersion Program classrooms by documenting “real-time” language and culture and create four seasonal lesson plan booklets in the Ojibwe language.
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
The project will create curricula in Okanagan Salish for our primary and elementary classrooms, increase the skill level of our teachers to utilize best language immersion practices, and assist our primary guide-apprentice to achieve certification as a Montessori primary guide.
Native Hawaiian
The initiative is an effort to create a public space where the academic Hawaiian language can be merged with cultural practice, increase the amount of young speakers who can perform Hawaiian roles as ceremonial leaders, orators, and storytellers, and establish consciousness of language and culture interdependency.
Hoopa Valley Tribe, California
The Hupa Language Immersion Project will create a cohort of 15 Learner/Teachers to complete 60 hours of Hupa Language Classes in order to increase their fluency and immersion teaching capabilities. The project will also create 8 immersion curriculum units to implement in HTEA center-based, in-school, after-school, and summer programming.