Awarded Grants

Our overarching purpose is to develop educational opportunities that honors, leverages, and utilizes local language, culture, and knowledge. More broadly, our project's goals are interrelated and multi-fold, all based on delivering a tangible, positive impact to: 1) create co-constructed, indigenous-led critical and creative learning initiatives 2) encourage cultural revitalization and retention efforts through youth involvement in cultural documentary production 3) re-connect youth to their cultural heritages by providing them a medium through which to explore and express their identities, 4) foster cross-cultural/cross-generational dialogue through film screenings, 5) build local capacity for ongoing efforts in cultural preservation and sustainable growth.

To create a nonprofit organization of Arizona Native American farmers and ranchers to leverage outreach and education opportunities that utilize the preservation of natural resources, conservation and priorities of indigenous people representative of ten (10) tribal conservation districts in the State of Arizona.

PBLF ultimate purpose is to: 1) create a new program using teaching and mentoring of traditional practices for adolescents, and youth; 2) retain traditional practices, food sources, and native language keeping alive culture and identity; 3) utilize the current grounds and resources of the Kewa House, After School Program, and upcoming summer program; 4) increase the participation of traditional native youth (30 ages 9-12, 50 ages 13-21) by providing them traditional activities and opportunities; and 5) leverage the rich traditional knowledge of community members Santo Domingo Pueblo and the 7 staff of Kewa House and the After School Program.

The ultimate purpose is to 1)create spaces for tribal youth in Northern New Mexico to celebrate and experience the teachings and knowledges that exist in their communities, 2)Retain and reclaim fluidity of feminine identity in both mainstream and cultural aspects of power and voice, 3)Increase opportunities for connection to existing cultural teachings through an intergenerational approach. Further, this project will leverage current activities of our A'Gin youth leadership project, federally funded through September 2016, to expand and deepen focus on cultural identity, female leadership, and sense of place and belonging.

The ultimate purpose of the Summit is to: 1) create a well-prepared next generation of Indian Country leaders in food and agriculture systems; 2) retain these young people in the important work of building Indian Country food systems throughout the years to come; 3) utilize and leverage existing FNDI-supported curriculum in the critical areas of financial literacy, food systems and food sovereignty assessment, and agriculture business planning; 4) improve decision-making in this important emerging leadership base for Indian Country food systems; and 5) increase our retention of their passions and energy in food systems.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) create greater awareness among tribal youth of traditional knowledge and cultural values of their tribes, 2) utilize tribal knowledge and leadership as well as expert knowledge to train youth in traditional practices and demonstrate methods for documenting cultural values, 3) increase awareness among all tribes in the Bears Ears region of the value of native wisdom and traditional cultural practices to land management and ecological research, 4) leverage project training and lessons by involving youth and elders of multiple Bears Ears' region tribes in the project.

This project will increase local control over data on the local food system. This project will increase data driven knowledge and create community plans based on data collected from a community food sovereignty assessment.

This project will increase local control over data on the local food system. This project will increase data driven knowledge and create community plans based on data collected from a community food sovereignty assessment.

This project will increase local control over data on the local food system. This project will increase data driven knowledge and create community plans based on data collected from a community food sovereignty assessment.

This project will increase local control over data on the local food system. This project will increase data driven knowledge and create community plans based on data collected from a community food sovereignty assessment.