Awarded Grants

The project will help WIA leverage knowledge and experience of other Native American galleries to attain a successful Woodland Indian art gallery that builds awareness and appreciation of Woodland Indian Art, and therefore sells the art of Native American adult and youth artists creating Woodland Indian art.

The project will increase the financial accounting and inventory knowledge and capacity of the Lakota Cultural Center's Supply Store and Gift Shop.

Conference sponsorship

To promote and design a food security project through farming, gardening, traditional gathering, and preservation activities utilizing the knowledge of community elders in three tribal communities within the Cherokee Nation.

The project will utilize existing staff and partnerships to organize families to create community gardens and increase access to traditional foods to expand the knowledge and practice of healthy eating and physical activity to reduce healthy disparities and food insecurities while retaining culture and traditions.

The overarching purpose of this project is to understand and implement the proposed food enterprise. NLFF is aiming to offer a regional operation to purchase from NLFF's farmers and others local/regional growers, provide necessary processing/storage and then market and distribute the produce throughout the community.

The kitchen project will help increase the knowledge of the different types of food preservation available, by utilizing NSF equipment to process locally grown produce. Also, to create an environment that supports residents in the Lodge Pole and other communities on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation.

This project creates at least twenty acres of public forest gardens in our region for GTB citizens, planted by local youth. It expands a nursery which will offer plants and seeds to GTB citizens. NRD and the museum will offer a free workshop series on food and water topics.

This program will increase knowledge of healthy local foods and traditional Lakota foods by utilizing the Sustainable Agriculture Education Center, Food Sovereignty Curriculum, and Lakota Food Knowledge program. Through providing hands on opportunities we will increase access to healthy local foods and encourage community members to take advantage of it.

Create and control an Educational outdoor gathering space programmed for Native youth. Programming includes regenerative living concepts, through food cultivation, medicinal farming, culture and eco-village education. Ensuring a more vibrant community on San Pasqual that includes increased access to the outdoors and to fresh fruits and vegetables.