Awarded Grants

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 will support Atux̂ Forever's assessment of the management practices of U.S. federal agencies activities on traditional homelands. This project will pave the way for environmental remediation and justice for the Saskinax̂ am Alaiit Sovereign Nation.

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.

The ultimate purpose is to increase traditional knowledge, improve the health of parents and their babies (i.e. mental, spiritual, physical, emotional), leverage current resources for birthing nursing parents and lactation professionals.

The Alaska Native Birthworkers Community is a community-based group of full spectrum Indigenous birth helpers and reproductive justice advocates organizing to reclaim Indigenous birth practices and to support Native families from preconception through postpartum with culturally-matched care.

The purpose of the Breastfeeding and First Foods project is to increase breastfeeding duration in Tribal Communities in Wisconsin through a variety of educational and support initiatives.