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49 Pawnee Nation College – Pawnee, OK • ($203,563) 55 Robeson Community College – Lumberton, NC • ($136,778)

Pawnee Nation College (PNC) seeks to meet the higher educational and cultural Robeson Community College (RCC) is located in rural southeastern North Carolina,
needs of the Pawnee Nation, other Indian nations and the surrounding communities. a region with a rich agricultural heritage and vibrant Native population. With NAAF
With NAAF funding, PNC will provide scholarships to Native agricultural students, funding, RCC will offer scholarships to students interested in agriculture careers and
organize Master Gardener classes, and conduct a hemp manufacturing research and provide continuing education classes for farmers, ranchers and growers looking to
analysis program. promote their businesses.

50 Quapaw Services Authority – Quapaw, OK • ($124,630) 56 Rock House Project – Zuni, NM • ($75,000)

Quapaw Services Authority (QSA) has a strong record of agricultural enterprise Rock House Project is focused on maintaining and protecting the agrarian culture and
development, leading the nation by building the first tribally owned meat processing the physical and spiritual landscape of the Zuni people. With NAAF funding, Rock
plant. With NAAF funding, QSA will develop tutorials and a supply rental program House Project will serve Zuni farmers and ranchers through a community-wide needs
for food preservation, establish a seed bank and provide agricultural internships to assessment survey, participatory meetings and business plan development trainings.
Native youth.
Sac and Fox Nation – Stroud, OK • ($100,000)
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51 Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa – Bayfield, WI • ($75,000) Sac and Fox Nation manages a Black Angus cattle herd. With NAAF funding, Sac

The Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe promotes food sovereignty in and Fox will seek to diversify its operation by researching the feasibility of a livestock
its homelands along the Lake Superior shoreline. With NAAF funding, Red Cliff will processing facility and sponsor youth engagement through travel scholarships for
increase production at Mino Bimaadiziiwin Farm by constructing a new production national agricultural programs.
and engagement facility and market farm produce through the commercial fish retail
facility.
Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe – Akwesasne, NY • ($75,000)
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Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians – Red Lake, MN • ($100,000) Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe’s (SRMT) agriculture program exists to promote a healthier
52 lifestyle for the Akwesasne community through growth of its own food. With NAAF
Red Lake Nation’s economic base is tied to its land and fisheries. With NAAF funding, SRMT will obtain architectural and engineering plans for a teaching farm
funding, Red Lake Nation will partner with the Waasabiik Ojibwemotaadiwin facility on tribal lands designed to engage future generations in agriculture.
Immersion Program on youth agricultural engagement and study the feasibility of
hemp production on the reservation for animal feed, human grade consumption and
building materials. San Felipe Pueblo – San Felipe Pueblo, NM • ($75,000)
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The San Felipe Pueblo provides numerous services to community farmers including
Red Willow Center – San Luis, CO • ($90,224) field preparation, seeding, cutting, baling, irrigation maintenance and water rights
53 advocacy. With NAAF funding, the San Felipe Pueblo will conduct a feasibility study
Red Willow Center works to reclaim the agricultural heritage of Taos Pueblo and to to assess value-added agricultural opportunities on Pueblo farmland and organize a
restore its traditional food systems. With NAAF funding, Red Willow Center will young farmer mentoring program.
provide business assistance to the Red Willow Farmers Market and technical support
to existing farmers, while also developing an internship program for community youth.
San Xavier Cooperative Association – Tucson, AZ • ($55,000)
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Rosebud Economic Development Corporation – Mission, SD • ($400,395) The San Xavier Cooperative Association’s (SXCA) mission emphasizes the respect of
54 land, elders, animals, plants and sacredness of water. With NAAF funding, SXCA will
Rosebud Economic Development Corporation (REDCO) provides services to investigate the potential for industrial hemp production in the area through testing
Sicangu Lakota Oyate farmers and ranchers. With NAAF funding, REDCO will agronomic conditions, studying economic feasibility, developing harvesting protocols
make agricultural loans to producers, train beginning farmers through an incubator and establishing relationships with market partners.
farm, study organic industrial hemp production and determine viability for a USDA-
certified meat processing facility.

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