Awarded Grants

Create a supportive environment for artists by increasing access to supplies for local artists to encourage the teaching of bead work and moccasin making. While assisting our local artists and providing workshops which encourage inter-generational learning, and lastly strengthen the organizational capacity of the Museum through a strategic planning workshop.

This project will utilize our spin off groups to create an apprenticeship and mentoring program that will allow us to increase the scope and quality of our fiber arts education and outreach programs. We will leverage resources to retain ancestral Navajo textile techniques, increase knowledge and ability to teach others.

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

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.

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.

Conference sponsorship for 16th Annual Native Hawaiian Convention

Native Giving Distribution