Ucwalmicw Centre Society
Project Support: Ucwalmicw Organic Garden and Food Security Project
The Ucwalmicw Centre provides training and services to aboriginal peoples from seven communities in the Lillooet area. Funding supports the youth-initiated Ucwalmicw Organic Community garden and an annual harvest gathering where Elders share agricultural knowledge with the youth. The gathering includes workshops on traditional foods and food preparation, such as how to cook with a cob oven the youth built and how to cook the traditional way using a pit. Both the garden and gathering were strategies undertaken to develop food security and address climate impacts in the community.
Traditional Native American Farmers Association
Project Support: Seeds for the Future
TNAFA, an intertribal association of farmers, educators and health professionals, is organizing two workshops focused on collecting, growing, testing, storage and maintaining a local "seed library" (seed bank). One workshop will take place in New Mexico in the spring and the other will take place with Native Seeds /SEARCH, located in Tucson, AZ, in the fall. TNAFA is recruiting high school and college-age students and will bring Native elders’ wisdom to these events.
Tohono O’odham Community Action (TOCA)
TOCA programs involve education, outreach and hands-on work around traditional foods. TOCA works with local schools to encourage traditional foods in the lunch programs, conducts traditional food educational presentations at community events and hosts two farms that grow traditional foods, one of which is being transitioned into a learning center. Funds will support this traditional food restoration work along with a Y.O.U.T.H. (Young O’odham United Through Health) Leadership camp to foster physical, mental and spiritual health for young peoples.
Tewa Women United
Project Support: Sovereign Energy Solutions Project (SESP)
Tewa Women United is undertaking a feasibility study as an initial first step to planning a locally based, small scale renewable energy installation. SESP involves is a collaborative effort among a set of Native businesses and non-profits to study viable renewable options in the six northern Pueblos. The ultimate goal of the SESP is to create a tribal model of energy production and end usage.
Tewa Women United
Project Support: Sovereign Energy Solutions Project (SESP)
Tewa Women United is undertaking a feasibility study as an initial first step to planning a locally based, small scale renewable energy installation. SESP involves is a collaborative effort among a set of Native businesses and non-profits to study viable renewable options in the six northern Pueblos. The ultimate goal of the SESP is to create a tribal model of energy production and end usage.
The Pelathe Community Resource Center
Project Support: Medicinal/Vegetable Gardening Project
The Pelathe Center is forging a networking and knowledge exchange between the Native American students attending the University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University and a younger generation of Native students attending local Jr. and Sr. High Schools within the Lawrence school district. The college students will serve as mentors and equal learners alongside the younger students in planning and developing a traditional medicinal and vegetable garden, providing self-identity opportunities and a sense of ‘community’ among Native youth.
Outta Your Backpack
Project Support: Hear Our Eco!
Outta Your Backpack Media (OYBMedia) offers free movie making workshops as an Indigenous youth response to the need for media justice in our communities. Honor the Earth funding supports a four-month "Hear our Eco!" workshop for up to 30 Indigenous youth to create their own “green economy” videos. The workshop will allow participants to take an active role in examining environmental issues, and particularly energy and food issues, in relation to their culture, communities and homelands.
Oglala Lakota Cultural & Economic Revitalization Initiative (OLCERI)
OLCERI works towards resiliency for the Lakota of Pine Ridge through education and the development of food, water and energy security projects. Funds will be used to carry out a set of trainings to teach sustainable building, permaculture, organic gardening and farming, sustainable range management and regeneration, and water catchment and reuse. During the hands-on courses, students build infrastructure, gardens, and compost for the reservation.
Native Vote Alliance of Minnesota (NVAM)
Project Support: 1st Annual Youth Civic Camp
Funding supports a new Native American Youth Civic Camp to further advance civic responsibilities needed for Native peoples to continue to flourish in a changing environment. Along with language and culture classes, the two week Camp will include a daily workshop on renewable energy and local foods as a means to grow youth involvement in the green economy.
Kalama’ula Mauka Homestead Association
Project Support: Alternative Energy Project
The Kalama’ula Mauka Homestead Association seeks to develop educational resources in its Native Hawaiian community in order to build resilience and food and energy independence. Honor the Earth’s grant will help the organization educate community members in existing alternative energy choices and provide funding to foster inventive energy solutions specially tailored for the needs of this remote island community.
Four Bridges Traveling Permaculture Institute
Project Support: Indigenous Sustainable Skills Program
Four Bridges Traveling Permaculture Institute is dedicated to preserving Indigenous cultures and restoring a healthy way of life through a collective effort of farmers, educators, healers, youth and elders. Funding supports hands-on workshops and trainings in organic farming, seed saving, and traditional foods and medicines designed to address poverty and the need for healthy, sustainable living practices in Indigenous communities.
Chickaloon Native Village
Project Support: Traditional Foods of Tomorrow
Chickaloon Native Village Ya Ne Dah Ah (Ancient Teachings) School is the first full-time year-round tribally-owned school in Alaska. The school integrates western education with an education grounded in traditional language, culture and customs, preparing students to walk in both worlds. The School’s Traditional Foods of Tomorrow project specifically teaches traditional life ways, including knowledge of and access to traditional foods.
Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribal College
Project Support: Walk Among the Sacred Beauty
Elders will lead a cultural study for Cheyenne and Arapaho youth in Bear Butte State Park in South Dakota in August, 2010. The ‘Walk Among the Sacred Beauty” is designed to teach young people about the history of the Butte, the unique local botany and the healing traditions of the medicinal plants that grow there. The Walk and the plants along the route will be photographed and videographed.
