Awarded Grants

This grant will enable the California Native Curriculum Foundation to create the Living Language Circle Conference, which provides technical training to tribal language and culture teachers.

The Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians (SVBPI) aims to reclaim traditional food practices, promote sustainable agriculture, and establish partnerships for food sovereignty. Through community food assessments and local projects, we strive to enhance control, access, and availability of culturally significant and healthy foods within our community

Leveraging data gathered during our Restoring Ancestral Lands Training and during our 2021 Food Sovereignty Assessment in which participants’ top priority was culturally-appropriate resource management, we will create opportunities to increase Tribal members’ Traditional Ecological Knowledge of practices and protocols related to acorns, mussels and seaweed.

Sponsorship for 2023 Southwest Tour

The TKV will create partnership with Tule River Reservation and the Bishop Paiute Tribe, in distributing food supplies earmarked for Native Americans in the Kern River Valley. Furthermore, the TKV Tribe will utilize, newly acquired property to upgrade and replant fruit tree orchard of Cherry, Apple and Peach trees.

Event Sponsorship to increase the capacity of Little Earth Residents Association Inc. to travel to and participate in the Indigenous Games.

This project will help increase the food availability for tribal members in the effort to enhance our food and traditional food sovereignty. Our holistic approach will include resources to support tribal members with traditional food accessibility and community gardens to combat our high rates of food insecurity.

General Operating Support

The Purpose of this Project is to create a market for traditional foods and teas in our local, on-Reservation community, to provide education surrounding ethical harvesting of our local native plants that are used as traditional foods and teas by creating a ritual of reciprocity.

General Operating Support