Awarded Grants

This project will increase food sovereignty by expanding growing space at Black Canyon Tribal Housing Community Garden, providing free distribution of healthy food to Tribe members. By leveraging Native gardening experts, younger Tribe members will be trained to take over the garden, preserving ancestral knowledge and fostering food sustainability.

Sponsorship 2023 Southwest Tour

Sponsorship for 2023 Southwest Tour

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.

Sponsorship for 2023 Southwest Tour

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.

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.