Scholarships

Scholarships

Buckeye’s long-arc vision is to cultivate spaces that are genuinely empowering for everyone who wishes to join. Ancestral skills are a way to reclaim our heritages, re-weave our community resilience and reconnect to ancestors. We are doing our best to learn as we go and to increase access to learning and remembering ancestral skills.

Scholarships are available for individuals as well as family, tribal, school, or other community groups. We welcome anyone to apply, but we will prioritize people who identify as part of the following communities:

• Indigenous or Native American, Black, Latino/a/x/e and all people of the global majority
• Communities underrepresented in the California earthskills community

We offer this support with the hopes to nurture a powerful, diverse community of earth-centered people, and we know that our gathering is in turn strengthened by the wisdom of all our participants. We invite you to apply for our scholarship if you are a part of these communities and would benefit from financial support. 

• Our scholarship application will become available at the bottom of this page on December 18th.
• The application window will close January 19th. You will be informed whether or not your application has been accepted by February 1st, before registration opens on February 7th. Any applications that come in after this window will be reviewed and added to the waitlist.
• If you are applying for a group scholarship please fill out one scholarship application. Their will be places to indicate the size and nature of your group. 
• Due to many no shows in the past, we ask for a minimum $5 contribution toward your ticket if awarded a scholarship. However, no one is turned away for lack of funds.
• Sign up to be on our mailing list (below) to receive a reminder about when registration opens and the scholarship application becomes available
• If you would prefer to apply for the scholarship via video or voice recording please feel free to submit your recording via email to info@buckeyegathering.net Please indicate clearly that you are applying for the scholarship in your email subject line. 

If you’ve been following Buckeye and our recent transition, you might notice that the language on this page and in our registration process has changed. Rather than reparations tickets, we have a scholarship fund. We want you to know that the language has changed but the core values and goal of increasing access for people of the global majority at Buckeye are still driving us. We are in our 4th year training, consulting and co-creating with Aaron Johnson of Holistic Resistance. We are grateful to be engaged in healthy cultural evolution with love and respect at the center.

We encourage family/tribal/community/school groups to apply together.

We hope you will join our mailing list and stay connected for future offerings