California Tribal Fund

Food Sovereignty Program

to complete mapping of the Tribe’s territories which will support further outreach, grant seeking, and land reacquisitions

Technical Assistance Support

Acjachemen Baseketweaving Revitalization Project

Nisena’n Language & Culture Perservation

To provide fresh produce, inspire the creation of a modern food wheel and collect or reimagine cultural recipes. Tribal-led projects build momentum and trust to grow demand for culturally relevant local foods and energize members to take on the work of food security through food sovereignty.

This project will help create opportunities for local Native families to deepen their land-based connections to traditional foods & plant medicines while protecting their rest and healing during postpartum by leveraging partnerships to deliver nourishing meals to their doors.

general operations support as they plan to build a community garden within their elderly community subdivision. They will also be partnering with a community school, providing opportunities for children to engage with the elders and help maintain the community garden.

General operating supportive for the Tribe's wildfire and disaster relief efforts for tribal members impacted by the Eaton Fire and to help the tribe prepare for future climate change related weather events.

Project Purpose The Atáahum Pó$uukat Temetií (Indian Peoples Horse Day) primary purpose is to teach inter-tribal youth in Southern California about American Indian horse culture, traditions, and practices. The project will leverage existing relationships with So Cal Tribal Youth programs to host nine (9) horse days camps on the Rincon Indian Reservation. Instruction will be intergenerational from Native elder ranchers and guided by experienced riders.

Project Purpose The project will create a cohort of tribal youth that may become future leaders of the tribe by providing them with basic knowledge, skills, and abilities on tribal leadership and culture. This project seeks to building youth technical capacity to they can better engage in tribal governance in the future.

Project Purpose This project will create opportunities for multi-generational engagement to empower youth through teaching traditional knowledge, cultural arts, and language revitalization skills increasing youth leadership and retention of Indigenous knowledge.

Project Purpose This project proposes to serve Native American youth in Butte County who are disproportionally impacted by juvenile delinquency and are at-risk for involvement in the juvenile justice system resulting from delinquent and pre-delinquent behaviors by building capacity in the Mechoopda Tribal Youth Council (TYC) and increasing participation in youth leadership within the tribe.

Project Purpose This project will create a language revitalization camp for youths and their language mentors. This project builds upon an event that was initiated by AICLS in 2021, an online Young Leadership Development Conference, that was then developed by a team of youth language leaders into an expanded year-long mentorship program to empower youth language leaders of California Indian communities.

Project Purpose The project will create opportunities for Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake youth at both Generations Early Childhood Education Center and the Education Center to connect with the Pomo culture and customs.

Project Purpose This grant will increase our capacity to host additional Indigenous Science and Traditional Food focused youth camps and raft or canoe trips on the Eel, Trinity and Sacramento Rivers and SF Bay, and help us to maintain current programming on the Klamath and North Coast. It will increase our ability to host field trips and classes related to Klamath, Eel, Sacramento and coastal water protection.

Project Purpose This project will bridge the cultural knowledge gap between Wilton's tribal youth by introducing them to their ancestral lands and expanding their cultural knowledge of tribal language, resources and practices.

Project Purpose The project creates increased cultural and environmental education opportunities for a greater number of Pomo youth; launches new collaborative efforts between Potter Valley tribe, and 12 other Pomo tribal groups with Xa Kako Dile: learning gardens and Noyo Center for Marine Science and leverages resources of each organization towards the goal of educating and empowering native Pomo youth in traditional cultural knowledge, benefitting the community.

Project Purpose Our Project will increase participation for Native teenage youth in the river-based overnight camps that include leadership and advocacy training to utilize their paddling skills in the historic first full descent of the undammed Klamath River and create community-based cultural events to increase intergenerational connectedness opportunities to honor restoration of our waterways and cultures.

Project Purpose SVBPI Youth Leadership Alliance will offer seasonal camps for youth in three (3) separate age groups. The youngest group will be grades K-3 day camps. The second group will offer overnight leadership camps planned and led by older youth. The older youth (grades 7-12) will participate in overnight camps that include leadership training and marketable skill building. Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) will top the list.

This general support grant will support the second year of the Hupa Language Immersion Nest, which helps create a new generation of Hupa language speakers.

Continued support for regalia making classes.

General support grant to support their Temalpakh Farm Education Center.

This grant will provide technical assistance support the Acorn Camp Program.

This grant will support planning and permitting for restoration projects on the Feather Falls Tribal Cultural Landscape.

This grant will be used as general operating support, made available for organizational capacity building.

This grant will support honorariums for the 2024 Annual Basketweavers Gathering

General Operating Support

General Operating Support

This project will enable La Posta Band of Mission Indians to sustain their community garden and healthy foods classes for tribal youth, adults and elders, thereby increasing their capacity to serve their tribe.

This project will enable Sustainable Economies Law Center to increase their provision of technical assistance to Kai Poma as Kai Poma continues to work on the transfer of the Blues Beach property from Cal Trans to Kai Poma.

This project will enable Pala Band of Mission Indians to increase their capacity to continue their Tribe's "Culture as Medicine for Youth" project.

This project will enable Quechan Indian Tribe to increase their capacity to continue their existing drought mitigation efforts.

This project will leverage three community clean-up events, increase public education through three seminars/workshops on Indigenous land stewardship and utilize three learning landscapes events to support community building and knowledge sharing around Indigenous land stewardship.

General Operating Support

General Operating Support

General Operating Support

General Operating Support

General Operating Support

General Operating Support

This project will support the first year of the Hupa Language Immersion Nest, which will create a new generation of Hupa Language speakers.

General Operating Support

General Operating Support

General Operating Support

General Operating Support

General Operating Support

General Operating Support

This project will help the organization retain the Nisena’n language and ensure the legacy of Nisena’n oral histories, ethnobotany and ethnography

General Operating Support

Gen Ops

This project will help to create food sovereignty through developing relationships with local farmers and ranchers. Leveraging the quality of fresh food available locally and to increasing the nutritional diversity to native families in the 6 counties we serve through the USDA LFPA grant program.

Tribal garden for traditional medicines and produce at the new Bago-Ga (Tule House) Elders Housing Project

This project will enable the Pomo Weavers Society to increase their capacity to continue to support the weavers from the Lake, Sonoma, and Mendocino counties that are learning, teaching, revitalizing and sharing basket culture.

Support 2024 cultural burn activities which will highlight traditional ecological knowledge practices and will strengthen connection to the Tribe’s ancestral land.

This project will enable Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians to increase their capacity to continue their biological and cultural restoration of the Verona Tract, which was recently returned to the Tribe in 2020.

This project will restore the Kashia Roundhouse for ceremonies.

This is a general operations grant to support capacity building for the tribe's new nonprofit organization.

This project will enable the tribe to expand the Tribal Library and Collection services at the Upusani Cultural Center, providing community members with a tangible link to their history.

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.

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

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.

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.

Our proposed Nobe Tu-Na Food Sustainability Program will increase the growing season of our vegetables from summer to year round fruits and vegetables being offered to over 50 Tribal Elders and Families.

The addition of refrigerated space and season extending high tunnels will increase capacity for the FIGR Farm & Garden program to produce and distribute food throughout the year to Tribal Citizens in the increasingly varying climate.

This project will create a Food Pantry distribution center, to increase the availability of fresh fruits, vegetables and traditional foods to Tribal community members. We will increase production from the Wukchumni Farm, leverage our work with Food Link of Tulare County Inc, and work with other local small farmers.

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.

Leveraging intra- and inter-tribal collaborations, the Big Pine Paiute Paiute Tribe Garden Collaborative will increase cultural, educational, and economic opportunities for Nüümü families and youth to participate in and control the current food sovereignty programs. Ed-Center youth will grow produce to prepare, preserve, eat, and sell through our Farmer’s Market.

The project’s purpose is to create awareness & build capacity to increase access (physical, social, economic & cultural) to sufficient, safe, and nutritious Traditional Indigenous foods, with a focus on Acorns, to improve the health of Indigenous Communities by leveraging local resources and relationships.

This project will allow the reemergence of indigenous food sovereignty practices of the Pomo to be the center point at the first housing initiative of the Tribe. It will allow for elders to share the cultural knowledge and wisdom of their people with the youth and families.

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.

This project will enable the Hoopa Valley Tribe to leverage efforts and resources to reclaim and restore 10,000 acres of Hoopa ancestral lands, which will lead to increased cultural, spiritual, and biological wellbeing.

General Operating Support

This project will enable Modoc Nation to increase their capacity to restore and protect their Tribe's ancestral lands.

This project will enable Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation to increase their capacity to operate cultural fire and land restoration projects in their ancestral territory.

General Operating Support

General Operating Support

General Support

General Support

This project will enable Enterprise Rancheria of Maidu Indians to increase their capacity to continue their Enterprise Tribal Nursery work.

General Operating Support

General Operating Support

General Operating Support

General Operating Support

This project will enable Sherwood Valley Rancheria to increase their capacity to continue their Sherwood Tribal Nursery work.

This project will enable Wukchumni Tribe to increase their capacity to support their Wukchumni Tribal Nursery.

This project will enable Tolowa Dee-ni' to increase their capacity to continue their Tolowa Dee-ni' Tribal Nursery work.

General Operating Support

General Operating Support

General Operating Support

This project will enable Kno'Qoti Native Wellness to increase their capacity to continue their Kwa Xqowa B'elith Tribal Nursery and Language.

General Operating Support

Conference sponsorship to support the North Coast Native Protectors, Tribal Marine Collaborative group's participation in the California Department of Water Resource's 2023 Californial Tribal Water Summit.

This project will enable Quechan Indian Tribe to increase their capacity to continue their existing drought mitigation efforts.

This project will enable Sustainable Economies Law Center to increase their provision of technical assistance to Kai Poma as Kai Poma continues to work on the transfer of the Blues Beach property from Cal Trans to Kai Poma.

General Support

Environmental and cultural management plan development for the Blues Beach property.

Environmental and cultural management plan development for the Blues Beach property.

Intergenerational Cultural Education and the Tribal Farm programs

Access to ancestral land - Three Creek's land program.

AICL’s 2023 programming including the Breath of Life Online Symposium, the Language is Life Gathering, and the Master-Apprentice Language project

General Support

Expansion of the community garden and health foods classes for tribal youth, adults, and elders.

Coastal reserve project and participation in the Tribal Marine Stewardship Network.

Intergenerational Cultural Programs

Pomo Language Video Project

Access to healthy foods and traditional plants through support of the Tribe’s current garden project.

These grant funds will be utilized to support the Tribe as it develops water infrastructure systems and resources for the Modoc Nation Ranches in response to current drought and wildfire conditions in Siskiyou County.

Northern California Inter-Tribal Policy Summit on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People gathering

Fuel Reduction Activities

Dixie Fire Restoration

Application for Federal Acknowledgment

Cultural Burn Activities

McKinney Wildfire Relief

Wildfire Relief

to support emergency wildfire response costs associated with the McKinney Fire. Funds can be used for housing vouchers/housing assistance for tribal members displaced due to fire, assistance with emergency needs for losses created by fires, such as clothing, home furnishings, vehicles, etc., staffing to support fire victims, or any other self-identified needs.

to support fuel reduction training for tribal community members and to create fire defensible space around tribal homes.

Going Beyond Land Acknowledgement project including support for land back case studies.

Emergency Wildfire Response

The specific purpose of this grant is to support technical assistance and training which will support the Tribe’s cultural program as they continue to survey their cultural sites and develop policies and procedures for cultural site protection.

Minnow's continued work related to advising the Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians, Coyote Band of Pomo Indians, and Round Valley Indian Tribes newly established non-profit organization, Kai Poma including supporting the transfer of the Blues Beach property from Cal Trans to Kai Poma.

Stewarding Tovaangar

Blues Beach Initiative

Training the museum’s board and staff on basketry and cultural items preservation.

Support for cultural demonstrators’ honorariums at the museum’s 50th Annual Indian Fair Day.

Conducting assessment which inform the management of Blues Beach.

Land Management Plan for existing land projects and Legal Review for Tesoro Highlands land transfer project.

General operating for the continued protection and preservation of cultural lands and resources.

Support for the 2022 Breath of Life Archival Institute’s cultural linguists honoraria.

General operating support for the Tribe’s restoration work on culturally sensitive sites and ancestral lands impacted by the Dixie Fire

Support for California Native youth’s access to cultural practices during the 2022 Annual Basketweavers Gathering

Support wildfire prevention efforts in addition to post fire recovery assistance for Native American families in Humboldt County

Temalpakh Farms will produce three growing seasons worth of organic produce.

Land access and food sovereignty support

This project will create a shared understanding of the lands the Modoc Nation now owns to allow them to retain, utilize, and control their natural resources and increase their ability to leverage other activities and support to eliminate neighbors' ability to take advantage of these lands without benefiting the Tribe.

This project will bring together historical and current land, environmental, and Yurok people centered data together to demonstrate change over time to inform land restoration and access within Yurok ancestral lands.

This project will leverage 2021 survey data in which all respondents desired greater access to ancestral lands and traditional resources; increase Native control of ancestral lands through community education on land trusts; utilize NCTCC's technical knowledge to collect and distribute regulatory information about food, medicine, and material resources.

The Sequoia Point Rematriation project will create a cultural easement for Sogorea Te' Land Trust on four acres of Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland, California, develop an outdoor gathering center for cultural activities and facilitate ecological restoration, returning the land to Indigenous care.

This project will enable our community to engage the Elders and youth in maintaining the indigenous control over land, water, and traditional ecological knowledge within our communities. this will create a positive and inspirational result for our next generation of land management leaders to become the best stewards of land.

This project will leverage CIMCC’s current efforts to purchase and/or obtain donated oak woodlands to be utilized and controlled by Native community members for traditional food way activities by training CIMCC staff and Native youth to form and develop a new non-profit land trust.

We hope to create an organization focused enough to be able to concentrate on the most critical need to preserve our Tongva land and culture, but also expansive enough to be able to respond to the changing and developing needs of our community.

Support traditional ecological knowledge practices including cultural burn activities which will foster continued connection to the Tribe’s ancestral land.

This project will increase the Tribes departmental capacity to complete the goal of reclaiming ancestral lands located at the Clear Lake State Park. By reclaiming this land, the Tribe will be allowed land access for gathering and increase cultural awareness and acknowledgement.

This project will create a framework to enable strong and sustainable growth of our organization and increase our information for proper management of our current land holdings.

The objective of the land program is to build their land base and protect cultural and natural resources of available land within the Tribe’s aboriginal territory by leveraging assets in order to create a community forest. This would help fulfill 3 of 12 priorities of their Tribal Environmental Plan (2021)

Support Minnow's continued work related to advising the Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians, Coyote Band of Pomo Indians, and Round Valley Indian Tribes newly established non-profit organization, Kai Poma including supporting the transfer of the Blues Beach property from Cal Trans to Kai Poma

Dry Creek Pomo Traditional Dancers General Operation Support

Dry Creek Pomo Traditional Dancers Ancestral Land and Cultural Resources Mapping

Technical assistance to assist the community with a cultural resource project