What We Do
Our Mission
SHC facilitates relationships, access and infrastructure to nourish connection to the land, water, animals and plants to invigorate longstanding trade networks for cultural exchange and connection, food sovereignty and security, and climate adaptation.
Our Vision
We envision a network of vibrant communities engaged in the exchange of knowledge, wisdom, foods, and materials that promote the healing, health and well-being of our peoples rooted in Indigenous lifeways.
Our Values
We are rooted in the ways of our ancestors
Reciprocity between Native Peoples and our nonhuman relatives - they feed us if we protect them
Mutuality between our Native nations to maintained complex traditional trade routes for exchange built
on protocol and ceremony so people live in collective abundance
Just Transition that foresees a return to lifeways that are rooted in synergy between our ecosystems and
economies
Land Back that returns stewardship of lands and waters to their rightful Indigenous caretakers
Our Projects
the smokehouse is a gathering place, a place of abundance.
it is the smell of smoldering alder and cottonwood curing our fish, meat, and hides
it is the laughter of aunties telling long stories late into the night under the midnight sun
the smokehouse defines the harvest of our summers
Community Food Hub
Cold Storage & Processing Space
We are building a community food hub that includes a contemporary freezing and packaging technology in a small scale processing plant, cold storage, and traditional Alaskan Native Smokehouses for clean, comfortable, efficient processing of fish, animals, and plants.
Gathering and Healing Space
We are building a spaces to gather and heal space together and individually. The Smokehouse Collective Land will host a community kitchen and garden, tiny homes, and Indigenous designed communal spaces to host workshops and events for the Dillingham and Visitors.
Trade Network & Marketplace
We are establishing a non-US governmental climate-resilient mutual-aid network of Native communities to preserve culture and ensure access to traditional foods through climate chaos.
For example, we are building relations with tribes to trade Alaskan salmon for moose, kelp, wild rice and maple syrup.
Gatherings & Culture Camps
We plan to host large gatherings to bring communities together for trade and barter, ceremony, dancing and cultural exchange.
We will host seasonal harvest camps to bring together Bristol Bay peoples and climate- impacted communities, such as villages along the Yukon river and tributaries, to engage in harvesting, processing, and cultural exchange in a place-based, values-led way.