Awarded Grants

This project will help revitalize traditional basket weaving of the Chumash culture by offering monthly classes to the tribal community. To bring back this traditional skill we need to have consistency with a master teacher to build confidence and continuity. This will increase participation and interest in Chumash basketry skills.

This project will create new opportunities and increase capacity for 24 artists by instituting an artist in residence program at PRACC. The program will utilize successful artists to assist Junior artists learning the business aspect of art. This process will aid the retention of art as cultural and economic independence.

This project will retain/preserve ancestral knowledge of ceremonial regalia and micaceous pottery making, by transferring knowledge from older generations to younger. During this project, ceremonial attire will be created in a series of classes, to include beading, sewing, medicine bag-making and ceremonial pottery. History, customs and protocols are also taught.

Create Native assets by supporting scholarship opportunities for Native American students in Colorado.

This project utilizes the existing relationship between the Blackfeet Tribe, ARMP, the FDPIR, and FAST Blackfeet to create the Blackfeet Community Food Resource Center, enhancing control over our local food economy and creating centralized food production/distribution. It leverages food insecurity data collected on FAST Blackfeet CFSA by increasing food access.

The project will increase traditional and healthy food access in the community by creating a healthy foods hub serving and distributing healthy and traditional foods. It leverages data collected via our community food sovereignty assessment. It will retain indigenous food knowledge, increase health and help us increase our lifespan.

This project will create a vessel for local gardeners to deliver their produce to the store which would help increase the availability of fresh fruits and vegetables leveraging the findings of the food sovereignty assessment which called for more availability of such.

This project will increase local access to fresh, healthy foods, including traditional Swinomish foods by creating and retaining Swinomish food programming and markets. It will utilize and leverage existing social and natural assets for education, marketing and outreach of these foods and associated physical and cultural health benefits.

Conference sponsorship for 16th Annual Native Hawaiian Convention