Funds provided to the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne (MCA) by the National Child Benefit Reinvestment Fund (NCBR) are used to teach teenagers in the community how to make traditional cornbread, moccasins, feather fans, gustowehs, rattles, washing Indian corn, water drums, and other handmade/homemade food and things that were commonly made decades ago. Other classes held at the Akwesasne Cultural Museum educate participants on beadwork, ribbon shirt and ribbon dress making, basket making classes, how to make corn husk dolls, and other relevant subjects. These educational programs help to pass down knowledge of the Tribe’s traditional uses of Akwesasne’s small plants and grasses.