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W,ENEITEL Grant Categories - Spring Grants 2021

APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED: Thursday, March 4! ANNOUNCING W,ENEITEL SPRING GRANTS! We're looking for Indigenous-led proposals. We are now accepting applications in four grant categories:... - "Fill Your Basket + Community Harvest" - "Maintenance + Restoration" - "Storytelling" - "Transformation + Transition" Applications can be oral or written. Share with your networks! Check out our website for the full details. Follow our Facebook and Instagram to find updates. https://www.indigenousfoodsinitiative.com/spring-2021-grants

ÍY SÁEL Folks, Here's a grant that can reach our communities. https://www.vancouverfoundation.ca/grants/level-bipoc-grants

Why does W,ENEITEL Indigenous Foods Initiative prioritize Indigenous food system rejuvenation and restoration? Because when colonizers created the reserve system they often moved us away from our villages that had the most abundance. Our villages food sources now have things like airports, or luxury hotels on top of them. And while these utilities and assets were developing, we lost access to our food and also had rotting or low-quality food forced upon us. Our elders an...d ancestors maintained a connection to meats and seafoods, but the populations and locations of wellness within our territory in which we can harvest meats and seafoods safely is quite small. We advocate for work to be done to restore access and wellness to our Indigenous food systems. We also advocate for our people to take opportunities to partake in our food system and take baby steps out of the colonial food system with it's violent roots at attempting to starve us. Our ancestors managed to survive through these forced starvation tactics, and we have to take time to explore the impacts this has had on our holistic health.