The Pit River Greenhouse aims to address food security issues with a sustainable food system based on community agriculture and food harvesting for its nearly 4,000 Tribal membership.
Rappahannock Tribe will celebrate the acquisition and rematriation of 969 acres of the Cliffs, originally named Matchopeake back to the Tribe. The cliff face was severely damaged by a developer who was approved to build a resort, golf course, marina, and housing subdivision.
This project will help retain and increase cultural and ecological knowledge by engaging Wôpanâak and intertribal families in land-based learning through traditional mentoring. It will leverage foodways, traditional language, housing practices to build relationships and restore cultural lifeways.
This project provides support for strategic planning meetings to enter into negotiations with public land managers for protection of our shared homeland and the creation of a federal government to tribal government co-stewardship agreement to manage traditional homelands using traditional practices.
This project builds tribal capacity to support community-led research and pursue U.S. Forest Service funding for forest stewardship.
This project supports tribal capacity to collaborate with the U.S. Forest Service on forest stewardship to enhance wildlife habitat and reflect tribal values. It will support engagement in federal planning and funding opportunities.
This project supports tribal capacity to pursue U.S. Forest Service partnerships and funding opportunities that align with Ojibwe land values. This project will support the protection, restoration, and stewardship of Leech Lake forested homelands.
This project supports efforts to improve wildlife planning through place-based data collection and community informed decision making. This work will strengthen collaboration with U.S. Forest Service programs in fire response and mitigation.