The Native Village of Paimiut (NVP) is a federally recognized tribe. The Native Village of Paimiut was re-established in the mid 1990’s by congressional mandate and is governed by a five-member Traditional Council.
Paimiut is a displaced Yup’ik village of approximately 100 enrolled tribal members from five original Paimiut families. The original ancestral lands of the Native Village of Paimiut are on the Southwestern side of the Askinuk Mountains in the Kusilvak Census area.
The majority of the NVP tribal members reside in, and have intermarried into, the villages of: Hooper Bay-population 1,330; Scammon Bay-population 577; and Chevak-population 939 on and near the Southwestern Bering Sea Coast of Alaska.
The Native Village of Paimiut, elects to utilize the allocated funds from the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program Plus (LFPA Plus) to purchase produce grown on the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta from Meyer’s farm in Bethel, AK. Tim and Lisa Meyers will provide weekly boxes of produce via a subscription service, with shipping included, to the Native Village of Paimiut Tribal Enrollees in three Rural Alaska Villages that they primarily reside in. The Native Village of Paimiut will also purchase a whole fully processed reindeer once a year for Paimiut households as well as additional fully processed reindeer for tribal Elders and families in other areas to offset the loss of critical salmon subsistence harvest. Fully processed, meaning the farm will butcher the reindeer and process and package the meat into portions that can be cooked and consumed. The people of NVP come from salmon culture, and the salmon crash has placed undue financial hardship on our families.