Awarded Grants

The ultimate purpose of our project is to create a properly equipped area to wash, dry, weigh and package our produce that we are growing in our greenhouse/aquaponics facility. In order to best control produce quality the processing area and equipment will be easy to wash and sanitize. This will allow us to retain a strict bio-security process within our facility and increase the efficiency of the operation and the quality of the produce for the consumer.

This project utilizes indigenous foods knowledge to empower youth and increase access to healthy traditional foods. Through guided peer learning, youth create modern connections to native nutrition and healthy living while increasing access to and retaining control of Meskwaki heritage seeds and healthy traditional foods. Additionally, it creates new partnerships within Meskwaki tribal operations that retain and expand Meskwaki Food Sovereignty Initiative programs previously funded through AmeriCorps VISTA.

This project's intended purpose is to gain control of the food system at Taos Pueblo by focusing on the improvement of the health of the community through education and youth/child immersion in traditional/sustainable agriculture, thereby increasing the consumption of Taos Pueblo-produced healthful foods that are dependably available, affordable, and preferred; and to improve food security, strengthen cultural heritage, and stimulate food-related economic development and entrepreneurism as means to increase community involvement in re-learning and maintaining the traditional agricultural past of self-reliance, and utilizing that past to make a viable economic future through sustainable agriculture.

Ultimate purpose: 1) utilize the one-acre Keya Wakpala Community Garden we established in 2015 to substantially increase the production and distribution of healthy food for our community; 2) expand the scope of the Community Farmers' Market and increase community participation at that market; 3) involve and educate community members in the full food production cycle: from cultivation to harvest to preservation and uses of garden produce; and from hunting and gathering to preservation and incorporation of traditional (wild) Lakota foods in everyday diets. Further, this project will leverage and strengthen key partnerships that can help promote food sovereignty.

The continuous purpose is the rehabilitation (bring us back to what we once were, self-sufficient & self-determined) of our native Hawaiian people by creating opportunities that has been suppressed over the past 100 years. Controlling our life's outcomes by self-governance, increasing our family household incomes, retaining control of our lands set aside in trust for our people and leveraging our farming, culture & language projects to catapult us toward self-sufficiency and self-determination.

The ultimate purpose of this project is to utilize and retain the Tyonek Grown model for rural Alaska Native Villages to increase access to healthy and fresh foods and increase food security. The Tyonek Garden is an asset to the community as a place for employment, a revenue source, a place for gathering, and a food source. TTCD will use the Tyonek Grown model training other Alaska Native Villages on local food production, linking traditional customs (i.e. traditional food distribution) with entrepreneurial opportunities.

The ultimate purpose of the proposed project is to 1) increase efficiencies in tribal member fish production, 2) increase tribal fish production volume in a concerted manner that safeguards ongoing healthy fish populations, 3) increase tribal member control of production and the market, 4) increase awareness of and access to local fresh-caught fish.

The ultimate purpose of this project is to increase economic opportunity on the Pine Ridge Reservation through ag economy, and continue to create a food system on the Pine Ridge Reservation. We will do this by leveraging our small demonstration farm by implementing a farmers market and begin to create value added products.

The ultimate purpose of this NACBI project is to build organizational capacity to better manage the Woodland Indian Art Show and Market, as well as outreach activities, of the WIA Board and volunteers by adding a part-time director to the working team. This project will result in a more solid base of volunteers, stronger fiscal policies, more collaborations and partnerships, a sound communication plan, and additional funding resources.

The Ultimate Purpose of the project is to 1) Create a stronger arts economy through Coalition building including the support of businesses & Organizations as well as the tribal government system, and 2) Utilize the current Lakota Artistry Cooperative program in a more effective and efficient way in order to better support the individual Lakota Artists as well as support the Local Arts Economy, and 3) Increase the availability of resources to the local Arts Community. This project will help to provide a stronger, healthier Arts Economy as a whole, as well as providing educational resources to the individual Artists.