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Cultural Conservancy, San Francisco and Novato CA
The Cultural Conservancy (TCC) originated in 1985 as The Sacred Land Foundation (SLF), an organization created to collect and disseminate […]
Native America Youth and Family Center (NAYA), “Indigenous Gardens and Food Justice,” and the Intertribal Gathering Garden, Portland OR
In the 1850’s, the Oregon state government attempted to empty the area now known as Portland, and 2.5 million acres […]
Bishop Paiute Elders Community Garden and Aquaponics Project, Bishop CA
The next town over from the Big Pine Paiute are the Bishop Paiute Tribe, in Bishop CA. With 2,000 enrolled […]
Big Pine Paiute Tribe Sustainable Food System Development Project, Big Pine CA
After leaving Arizona in mid-July, we headed northwest, into the dry mountains of western California, to visit the Big Pine […]
Black Mesa Water Coalition Green Economy Project, Piñon AZ
After driving half an hour down a dusty red road, we came intoPiñon, a town on the Navajo Nation in […]
People’s Climate March– Front lines of Crisis, Forefront of Changes: Indigenous, Environmental Justice and Other Frontline Communities
As we traveled the country this summer visiting Native American farming and gardening projects, we talked to people about the […]
Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture, Kykotsmovi Village, AZ
The 1.5 million acre Hopi reservation is located in Arizona, surrounded on all sides by the Navajo Nation. The Hopi […]
Ndee Bikiyaa, “The People’s Farm,” White Mountain Apache Tribe, AZ
The one and a half million acre Fort Apache Reservation in eastern Arizona experiences all four seasons and a variety […]
San Xavier Co-op Farm, Tucson AZ
There four distinct communities that make up the expansive Tohono O’odham Nation; the “main reservation” that houses the capital in Sells, […]
From Garden Warriors to Good Seeds: Indigenizing the Local Food Movement 