UPCOMING: PROJECTS

Food For Indigenous Futures

This project builds a community and youth-informed curriculum to connect with cultural practices in health, wellness, traditional ecological knowledge, and food sovereignty The program includes youth summer camps (online and in-person) and school-based curriculum for Native American High School students alongside opportunities for Native American youth to create and implement programs and projects for Indigenous futures. Funded by the Elevate Youth Grant through the Sierra Health Fund.

Food Boxes For The Wiyot Community

This project, partnered with the Native Women's Collective, supports local Indigenous Youth in gathering traditional foods, processing, and preparing them into meal boxes for the Wiyot community Boxes will contain fresh produce from community producers, as well as recipe cards and other educational materials developed in partnership with the Wiyot community. This project has the fundamental goal of feeding community, while reconnecting youth to their own traditional foods and to their elders. Funded by the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance and the Native Cultures Fund; supported by the Center at McKinelyville

Mouralherwaqh

Mouralherwaqh ("wolf's house") is land that has recently been returned to the Wiyot Tribe, near the southern part of Wigi ('Humboldt Bay') The Wiyot Tribe is partnering with Friends of the Dunes, Humboldt Baykeeper, and Cal Poly Humboldt, including the Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab, in the return and restoration of the land Current restoration planning will result in multi-benefit projects to improve water quality, ecosystem health, and climate resilience The monitoring and ecocultural restoration and management plan will draw from traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and Western science to support water quality, coastal habitat, and cultural sustainability on the site and in the connected region. Funded by Ocean Protection Council Proposition 1 Grant Program