Promoting Healthy Outcomes Through Indigenous Food Systems

Seed sovereignty is integral to our collective futures, and we want to honor and support our relatives who are doing seed work across Turtle Island. 🌽

If you are interested in learning more or to be considered to receive one of the 10 stipends, please fill out our form at https://bit.ly/3wQQKpd.

For any questions related to this opportunity, please feel free to reach out to Aaron Lowden, ISKN's Program Coordinator, at [email protected].

USDA has opened grant applications under the Local Agriculture Market Program (LAMP). This funding is available through three channels, with the USDA including a focus on Farm to Institution (FTI) projects for two of the funding streams: The Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP) grants will develop food businesses which connect local food to institutions, and the Regional Food System Partnerships (RFSP) grant supports public-private partnerships that build and strengthen the viability of local or regional food economies. The third stream, the Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP), supports direct-to-consumer markets such as farmers markets and CSAs. USDA is hosting informational webinars for FMPP and LFPP on April 5th 1PM ET and for RFSP on April 6th 1PM ET. All applications are due Monday, May 16th 2022. Read our blog post for more background information and application resources!

We are looking forward to the growing season on this rainy day! Start talking amongst your family on what you will be growing this season.

‘It’s a powerful feeling’: the Indigenous American tribe helping to bring back buffalo

‘It’s a powerful feeling’: the Indigenous American tribe helping to bring back buffalo The Rosebud Sioux tribe in South Dakota are trying to build the biggest Native-American owned buffalo herd to help food security and restore the land

NATIFS is looking for an Education Program Director who is knowledgeable and passionate about Indigenous foodways. The Education Program Director will lead curriculum planning and development for the Indigenous Food Lab professional Indigenous kitchen and training center, in conjunction with the Culinary Program Director and working with the Indigenous Education Coordinator.

Check out the job posting on our website for more information: https://www.natifs.org/education-program-director/

Indigenous Food Lab will be participating in the Global Chili Cook-off! Join us March 26th from 12pm - 2pm.

Eleven Midtown Global Market chefs will create their own take on chili to compete for the title of Best Chili of 2022.

There will be a limit of 150 chili sampling sets produced, so reserve yours today! Pre-order and then stay to enjoy your Chili at the Market. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-chili-cook-off-at-the-midtown-global-market-tickets-234948927567

The Tribal Agriculture Fellowship will award funding to American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian students pursuing technical, undergraduate, and graduate degrees in agriculture related fields. Apply at taffellows.org #TAFFellows

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Yellowstone National Park is hiring for two six-month internships for American Indian students to work alongside National Park staff in caring, handling, and testing bison held within the park facility!

✔️ Apply HERE https://bit.ly/3h1dJEG!

#ThinkIndian #NativeAmerican #Yellowstone

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Join the IAC and the USDA-Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) to learn more about the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA) which provides $400 million in non-competitive agreements to Tribes and states to support local food purchasing and distribution.

An awesome illustration by @yen.azzaro from a recent demonstration I did with @foodcorps. It was so much fun to have a visual that pulled together the Three Sisters Soup and Sunflower Maple Cookies along with the other information that was shared.

This Virtual Cookbook Shares Indigenous Recipes Through Storytelling

This Virtual Cookbook Shares Indigenous Recipes Through Storytelling Indigenous culinary community I-Collective combined modern technology and age-old practices to create a virtual cookbook that aims to educate and preserve food traditions.

There is still space for this workshop hosted by Hope Flanagan. This event is free but please be respectful and ask questions! The time is 6 PM CST. No registration is required.

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"This needs to happen everywhere." Indeed.

shared via Benjamin Dixon

Now is a great time to craft a market plan for Native-produced food products. Check out this infographic to help get started.
Find more resources on our website: www.indigenousfoodandag.com.

Corn is a gift to the world from many generations of Indigenous agriculturalists who nurtured its transformation from a wild grass into hundreds of varieties of life-sustaining grains. For many Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas, corn plays a role in their origin stories, ceremonies, and identities today.

Those of you who have participated in our "Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change: Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples" workshops will remember the story of the Pawnee corn, recovered and thriving today through the power of friendship.

In Boulder, we grow beautiful Heritage Puebloan Corn on the Andrews Family Farm and give it as gifts to participants in our in-person workshops.

You can access our workshops through: https://friendspeaceteams.org/upcoming-events/

You can listen to "Reconciliation Rising: The Pawnee Seed Preservation Project", Podcast Episode #8 here: https://www.reconciliationrising.org/blurbs

Deb Echo-Hawk (Pawnee Keeper of the Seeds) and Ronnie O'Brien tell the story of the recovery of ten varieties of Pawnee corn, the importance of corn to the Pawnee people, and the blessings of friendship between the Pawnee and the Nebraska settlers.

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✅ Join First Nations today (12/15) at noon MT.

The Farm to School Initiative and Education and Production Farm at the Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation are helping lead the way in how we incorporate local foods into our lives. In this latest webinar, program director Katie Chustak will discuss how this work is regenerating the local food system for the Red Cloud campus, student body, and Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Nick Hernandez (Oglala Sioux Tribe) will join the discussion.

👀 Visit our website to REGISTER: https://www.firstnations.org/webinars/native-farm-to-school-webinar-season-2/

#indigenous #indigenouswebinar #foodsytems #food #foodsovereignty

We are shining light on one of our Farm to School producers on our Local Foods Map this week. Larry Schumacher of Larry’s Lettuce offers a wide variety of, you guessed it, lettuce. Based out of Fullerton, N.D., Larry had a dream of supplying local lettuce year-round to North Dakota residents. With the help of NDSU Extension Office, he created his very own hydroponic growing system that can produce ready to eat lettuce in just 3-4 weeks. With this quick technology, Larry was able to supply large amounts of lettuce to not only his customers through his website, but the schools.

Interested in ordering? Visit our Local Foods Map to order some today. https://www.nd.gov/ndda/NDLFMAP

Start Locally!

At One Alaskan Hospital, Indigenous Foods Are Part of the Healing Plan

At One Alaskan Hospital, Indigenous Foods Are Part of the Healing Plan In a state hit hard by Covid, seal soup, caribou stew and other traditional dishes are prepared for patients who are often hundreds of miles from home.

GATHER TRAILER 031020

GATHER TRAILER 031020 GATHER is the story of the rebuilding of Native food systems. This feature film is an intimate portrait tracing the intentional destruction of Native America...

Mission for food sovereignty continues as Leech Lake cuts ribbon on Leech Lake Market | Bemidji Pioneer

Mission for food sovereignty continues as Leech Lake cuts ribbon on Leech Lake Market | Bemidji Pioneer Though the day was chilly, excitement filled the air as more than 100 Leech Lake Tribal Council and community members took part in a ribbon cutting ceremony for the newly acquired Leech Lake Market, formerly Teal’s Market, on Thursday afternoon.

Free virtual indigenous foods series in collaboration with the Minneapolis American Indian Center and Dream of Wild Health.

Join us as we collaborate with Dream of Wild Health, Division of Indian Work, and Minneapolis American Indian Center for a series on Indigenous foods and recipes. We’ll make a series of delicious meals, drinks, medicines, and desserts using local and traditional foods as we explore the nutritional and cultural significance of their ingredients. The instructors will share their expertise on sourcing, sustainability, and environmental impacts we’re seeing in real-time. Sign up today at the link below https://buff.ly/2pj4jg3

Processing Trout - Cleaning and Filleting (including fast pinbone removal)

Processing Trout - Cleaning and Filleting (including fast pinbone removal) Full length video showing how to easily gut your fish and turn it into beautiful fillets. Shown by Kenneth CookBackground music courtesy of Ben Sound

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Get support to boost Native control, cultural responsiveness, and infrastructure of community food systems by building the capacity of your Tribal food pantry and food bank. With support from the WalMart Foundation, First Nations is awarding grants through a new “Setting the Table” project. Learn more and apply, plus check out Q&A application webinars November 2 and 5.

👉Register for the Q&A application webinars and apply for the grant >

https://www.firstnations.org/rfps/setting-the-table-for-a-healthy-food-system-in-indian-country-grant/

Mission for food sovereignty continues as Leech Lake cuts ribbon on Leech Lake Market | Bemidji Pioneer

Mission for food sovereignty continues as Leech Lake cuts ribbon on Leech Lake Market | Bemidji Pioneer Though the day was chilly, excitement filled the air as more than 100 Leech Lake Tribal Council and community members took part in a ribbon cutting ceremony for the newly acquired Leech Lake Market, formerly Teal’s Market, on Thursday afternoon.

We are excited to partner with Seward Community Co-op and our partners at Indigenous Food Network for this delicious event. DWH very own Alanna Norris will show us how to make a Four Sisters Pasdayapi Salad, a fresh and healthy recipe using wild rice, black beans, and hominy, from Dream of Wild Health’s Youth Leader Cookbook.

Four Sisters Pasdayapi Salad
Wednesday, October 27th
6-7:30pm

Eventbrite link- https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indigenous-foods-class-series-four-sisters-pasdayapi-salad-tickets-166304863323
Web link- https://seward.coop/event/indigenous-foods-class-series-four-sisters-pasdayapi-salad/

NAFSA is seeking community input to help direct and develop our Food and Culinary Program! 🍓

NAFSA’s Food & Culinary program is cultivating a network of food preparers and is developing peer-to-peer learning opportunities that support the revitalization of these traditional foodways. As our staff continue to build off previous community listening sessions in order to develop this relatively new program, we are seeking feedback from community members who are engaged in food preparation at home or in a community setting. This questionnaire is a part of a larger assessment process that NAFSA is beginning which will inform the development of future programming and resources.

To participate, visit bit.ly/NAFSAfcqa (linked in our bio!) or scan the QR code included in this flyer. This questionnaire is estimated to take less than 10 minutes to complete. Survey responses are anonymous and individual responses will not be shared outside of the NAFSA program staff. The results of this survey will guide our Food and Culinary program planning for 2022 and will be shared with our community.

If you have any questions about the results, how this data will be used, or your participation in this survey, please contact Kristina Stanley at [email protected].

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Reminder: Season Two of First Nations' Native Farm to School Webinar Series kicks off this Thursday. Join Lisa and Arlo Iron Cloud to learn about their experiences helping communities reconnect to lands, culture, history and traditional foods. Learn more and register here. https://www.firstnations.org/webinars/native-farm-to-school-webinar-season-2/

A New Cookbook by Indigenous People, for Indigenous People

A New Cookbook by Indigenous People, for Indigenous People A group of Indigenous chefs is releasing a virtual cookbook featuring digital issues, webinars and videos to reclaim narratives about Native foods.

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Season Two of First Nations' Native Farm to School Webinar Series kicks off next week with “Cultivating Cultural and Medicinal Harvest Camps.” Join Lisa and Arlo Iron Cloud, Thursday, October 14, at 12 pm Mountain, to learn about their experiences helping communities reconnect to lands, culture, history and traditional foods. https://www.firstnations.org/webinars/native-farm-to-school-webinar-season-2/

Interview with Mariah Gladstone

Interview with Mariah Gladstone Mariah Gladstone (Blackfeet/Cherokee Nation) talks about her background in food advocacy and her experience founding the online cooking platform Indigikitche...

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We are proud to present Mariah Gladstone of IndigiKitchen as our kickoff virtual event for our new Stop and Grow program! Click the link below to register!
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocO6prTorEtKrBEaKdgC0w0JxH7IrNhA_ https://bit.ly/3DjpKP3