Awarded Grants

The ultimate purpose of the Naajimijime Project is to 1) create healthy food choices for Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig students and Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe tribal members, that focuses on creating more traditional meals with locally grown, highly nutritious food items, and 2) promote community involvement that will focus and connect Leech Lake tribal youth, adults, and elders through activity that concentrates on retaining, honoring, and preserving knowledge regarding food, seeds and agricultural traditions.

The ultimate purpose of the project is twofold: retain the Hopi language and create a new cadre of weavers to retain the cultural weaving practices of the Hopi people. It has been documented that the use of Hopi language and weaving as a cultural activity are both in decline. The project seeks to increase the number of speakers and weavers to carry on the cultural identity and tradition. The project can also leverage the personal income of the weavers by teaching them an art practice that is in demand and can be traded or sold to others.

The ultimate purpose of this project is to create tribal community smokehouses with mentorship opportunities that will eliminate economic and educational barriers which have prevented tribal members from being able to include safely smoked and preserved traditional foods in their diet throughout the year, and, thus, will retain and increase the Suquamish cultural knowledge of smoking foods for preservation, thereby increasing food security within the community and increasing participation in traditional Suquamish food systems.

Our overall goal is to 1)create young Arapaho language speakers so that our sacred language will be maintained for future generations; 2)utilize the elders in order to transmit and retain our language, culture, and history; and 3) significantly increase the number of tribal youth familiar with Arapaho language, culture, and tradition. Further, our language camps are important in the development and maintenance of respect and responsibility in our interrelationship with other entities of Creation. We need to reconnect with our Way of Life and reestablish our relationships through programming that encompasses the intergenerational transmission of our sacred language.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) create an independent food system in which affordable and nutritious food is available to the Tribal community and, 2) to increase community resiliency through creating economic opportunities for small-scale food producers and non-food vendors to sell directly to consumers at a Community Market. On-the-job training will inspire the next generation of food activists and promote sharing through workshops that encourage cross-generational dialogue. 3) Outreach will increase environmentally responsible growing practices, stewardship of traditional, open-pollinated food varieties, seed saving and will re-vitalize traditional knowledge regarding harvesting and land care.

The ultimate purpose of Seeds of Zuni Health is to create an outdoor learning space and Farmers' Market space at acreage recently donated to ZYEP by the Zuni Tribe, retain traditional Zuni agricultural practices and cultural traditions related to the sharing and distribution of food, and leverage the funding provided for A:ho' A:wan Doyenkakya Dehwanne (People's Garden) to take the project from growing fresh local produce to improving the local food system as a whole.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) create pilot Children's Savings Account (CSA) programs with two ONAC constituents to seed/open accounts for 80 youth to help the youth build/create a nest egg of savings, and 2) help the two constituents to leverage these pilots so they can attract their own funding, in the future, for sustainable CSA programs. Additionally, this project will help ONAC retain our relationships with our constituents (the project partners) so they continue to see ONAC as a useful partner that can help them increase their asset building programming efforts with tribal members.

The purpose of the LEAF Board Retreat for Planning, Growth, and Expansion project is to retain the creativity and vision of the Founding Board while simultaneously creating a governing entity that is resolute in their commitment to growth and stability of the organization. The momentum generated by each of the components of this project will assist the Board as they utilize their position to increase their participation in the areas of fundraising and membership, and to identify and commit to ways in which he/she will cultivate and strengthen the organization through their commitment to the strategic plan.

The ultimate purpose is 1) to create and cultivate the Community youth to make connections between Native artists and priorities that include economic development, art, culture, education and 2) retain the knowledge by creating, promoting an apprentice program to build capacity and interest in Native Arts among our young artists. Furthermore, this project will help utilize, even leverage and expand existing senior master quilters; potters and cradle makers to train our youth apprentice develop and enhance their skills.

The ultimate purpose of the Acoma Learning Center Youth Language and Culture Project is to engage and involve youth in activities that promote and retain Acoma language, culture and identity. In this, the Pueblo of Acoma through the Acoma Learning Center will increase the resiliency of our Acoma youth and allows us, the Haak'u Hanu to leverage our greatest resource to create and sustain a healthy tribal community.