TOCA's Partners

     TOCA has worked closely with the Innovation Center for Youth and Community Development on its Youth Leadership for Development Initiative.

     The Heard Museum hosts TOCA's annual Celebration of Basketweaving: Native American Basketweavers Gathering and Market in December. The Heard is one of the finest Native American arts and culture museums in the world.

455Native Seeds/SEARCH works to conserve, distribute and document the adapted and diverse varieties of agricultural seed, their wild relatives and the role these seeds play in cultures of the American Southwestern and northwest Mexico. TOCA works with NS/S on preserving traditional Tohono O'odham crop varieties.

     The National Museum of the American Indian, a part of the Smithsonian Institution, has a major basketry exhibit scheduled for 2003.

     The California Indian Basketweavers Association works to preserve, promote, and perpetuate California Indian basketweaving traditions while providing a healthy physical, social, spiritual, and economic environment for basketweavers.

     The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum located west of Tucson provides visitors with an opportunity to experience the plants, animals and cultures of the Sonoran Desert.

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