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25 Healthy Futures – Albuquerque, NM • ($73,615) 31 Keweenaw Bay Indian Community – Baraga, MI • ($75,000)
Healthy Futures partners with community-based organizations to provide agricultural Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) promotes treaty rights fishing, gardening
education, business management and technical assistance in Native areas. With and harvesting of traditional foods in the Lake Superior region. With NAAF funding,
NAAF funding, Healthy Futures will organize an extensive curriculum of agricultural KBIC will establish an integrated community food sovereignty system by constructing
workshops targeting 25 Native farmers and 165 Native families in the Torreon and a food safety certified fish processing facility and using fish byproducts to expand
Ojo Encino Chapters of the Navajo Nation. organic vegetable production.

26 HoChunk Community Capital – Winnebago, NE • ($182,704) 32 Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District – Hoopa, CA • ($75,000)
HoChunk Community Capital (HCCC), a Native CDFI serving the Winnebago Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District (KTRCD) seeks to maintain
Tribe of Nebraska, supports tribal food sovereignty initiatives. With NAAF funding, traditional ecological knowledge for the next generations of Native people. With
HCCC will start the HoChunk Harvest Native Business incubator project, recruiting NAAF funding, KTRCD will host workshops for at least 160 participants on proper
30 Native agriculture and food entrepreneurs to launch their businesses with start-up techniques of gathering and preserving local traditional foods obtained through
capital and mentoring. hunting, fishing and harvesting.

27 Indian Land Tenure Foundation – Little Canada, MN • ($186,489) 33 Lake Superior Community Development Corp – L’anse, MI • ($250,000)
The Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) is a national, community-based Lake Superior Community Development Corp (LSCDC) extends credit and financial
organization serving Native American nations and people in the recovery and control literacy training to Native people, including farmers and ranchers, throughout Michigan.
of their rightful homelands. With NAAF funding, ILTF will lead the development of With NAAF funding, LSCDC will deploy loan capital to meet demonstrated
the National Tribal Land Agriculture Database, enabling quantification and assessment agricultural lending needs and provide business training and tax preparation for Native
of alienated agricultural land on Native economies. producers.

28 Indian Nations Conservation Alliance – Twin Bridges, MT • ($60,000) 34 Lakota Funds – Kyle, SD • ($400,000)

Indian Nations Conservation Alliance (INCA) helps tribes, tribal conservation districts Lakota Funds, a Native CDFI serving the Oglala Lakota Tribe on Pine Ridge
and Native producers care for the land. With NAAF funding, INCA will tackle the Reservation, has supported Native farmers and ranchers through business lending,
barriers restricting Native participation in NRCS programs, work to restore irrigated coaching and training since 1986. With NAAF funding, Lakota Funds will provide
lands to production, provide agricultural credit training and support the development comprehensive financial support for large-scale, full-time ranching operations and
of Agriculture Resource Management Plans. develop a youth livestock lending program.

29 Inter-Tribal Buffalo Council – Rapid City, SD • ($75,000) 35 Lower Sioux Indian Community – Morton, MN • ($49,775)

Inter-Tribal Buffalo Council (ITBC) has been supporting Native farmers and ranchers Lower Sioux Indian Community, located in the heart of Minnesota’s row crop
by restoring buffalo to tribal lands for nearly 30 years. With NAAF funding, ITBC will farmland, is working to generate agricultural interest and economic development
develop long-term tools and trainings designed to help tribal buffalo producers capture among its tribal population. With NAAF funding, Lower Sioux will conduct an
value-added agriculture opportunities to produce revenue streams for continued herd industrial hemp production feasibility study to evaluate potential for a processing
growth. facility and hempcrete operation.

30 Intertribal Agriculture Council – Billings, MT • ($275,495) 36 Lummi Community Development Financial Institution – Bellingham, WA •

The Intertribal Agriculture Council (IAC) has served Native farmers and ranchers ($150,000)
for more than 30 years through regionalized technical assistance and policy advocacy.
Lummi CDFI offers a trusted place for tribal members considering entrepreneurship,
With NAAF funding, IAC will build on their American Indian Foods program
building a business, and/or strengthening their credit by providing access to education,
by formalizing a domestic market access process to connect Native producers with
financing and asset growth. With NAAF funding, Lummi CDFI will offer technical
business opportunities.
assistance and financial tools specifically to Native fishers, divers and harvesters of
seafood products.

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