Awarded Grants

Create flexible opportunities to provide training that aligns with culturally grounded, community based approaches at heart of TLPI’s mission to enhance and strengthen tribal sovereignty and justice while honoring community values, protecting rights, and promoting well-being.

This project advances Urban Indian Food Sovereignty in two parts: first, demonstration growing, foodways workshops and community feasts share knowledge to inform the collective build out of long-term foodways access in a Native orchard/foodways walking trail on our TNAS-managed conservation acreage.

This project strengthens Indigenous food sovereignty by revitalizing traditional knowledge and culturally rooted systems of care for Native families in Montana, leveraging ancestral teachings on First Foods, lactation, and postpartum healing.

This project will support the Cowlitz Tribe's beaver relocation and restoration program by building programmatic capacity to monitor beaver activity at relocation sites. This project will support the development of novel monitoring methods and provide critical data to determine relocation success.

The Yurok Tribe Food Sovereignty Program will implement a culturally rooted initiative to support Yurok mothers, infants, and young children by increasing access to traditional first foods through the distribution of seasonal Traditional Food and Healthy Food boxes.

This project will create 14 fee PreK-12 unit plans highlighting indigenous foodways of the midwestern region. It leverages the expertise of three indigenous communities - Jessica Walks First (Menominee), Kim McIver (Ojibwe) and Gina Roxas (Prairie Band Potawatomi) as well Pilot Light teachers.

This project revives imu culture in the Waimānalo Hawaiian Homestead community, strengthening cultural identity, food self-sufficiency, and shared learning. Through traditional earth oven practice, we nurture connection, mālama ʻāina, and the passing of knowledge between generations.

This project will strengthen Ojibwe food sovereignty by creating seasonal, land-based learning gatherings where community members and schools participate in traditional harvesting, food preparation, and Ojibwe language use tied to berry picking, wild rice, trapping, and hunting-related foodways.

Through our Tribal partnership with the Yankton Sioux Tribe and with community and Elder-led governance, we provide nutrient-dense traditional foods and intergenerational knowledge to ensure the health and self-determination of Native mothers and infants.

This project revitalizes Native Hawaiian birth and food traditions by expanding culturally grounded maternal and infant care and birthing practices, first foods education, and practitioner training, strengthening community networks and increasing access to traditional foods for families and keiki.