First Foods

Our Father’s Day Brunch with AICH just got a little sweeter and a little spicier. There's still time to register for our community brunch honoring fathers, grandfathers, uncles, cousins, mentors, and all the father figures who help guide, protect, teach, and care in ways big and small. We’ll be sharing brunch, activities, free snacks for dads and father figures while supplies last, and a short film screening of Indigenous Dads (2022) with space for reflection and community connection.

Now we've added delicious Blueberry Sweetgrass Hot Sauce & spices packets from , a Native-owned farm based in Tumalo, Oregon, dedicated to growing Native American First Foods and supporting Tribal food sovereignty through regenerative Native farming practices and education. The farm grows specialty Tribal peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, garlic, herbs, Native flowers, and ancestral seeds while also operating a PNW Tribal Seed Bank for regional and national Tribal members. We are excited to share their work with the community. Items will be available first-come, first-served, while supplies last, so please register and come through early, bring your family, and help us celebrate the men who help carry community forward.

📍 American Indian Community House
📅 Sunday, June 21st
⏰ 11am-3pm
🔗 RSVP: https://bit.ly/GSCfathersdaybrunch

This Father’s Day season, we’re making space to celebrate the men and male role models who show up for our families and communities.
Join Grinding Stone Collective at the American Indian Community House for a community brunch honoring fathers, grandfathers, uncles, cousins, mentors, and all the father figures who help guide, protect, teach, and care in ways big and small.

We’ll be sharing brunch, activities, free snacks for dads and father figures while supplies last, and a short film screening of Indigenous Dads (2022) with space for reflection and community connection.

Come through, bring your family, and help us celebrate the men who help carry community forward.

📍 American Indian Community House
📅 Sunday, June 21st
⏰ 11am-3pm
🔗 RSVP: https://bit.ly/GSCfathersdaybrunch

Tipai (Kumeyaay) people, including the Kwaaymii Band, have long used places like Mine Wash and Little Blair Valley as seasonal food landscapes, where community labor turned desert harvests into daily nourishment. Bedrock mortars and grinding slicks are not just “features,” they are work marks: repeated pounding, repeated grinding, repeated meals made possible through skill and time.

This is living cultural heritage, and you visit sites like these, treat them responsibly: stay on the trail, leave everything as you found it, and never remove artifacts. Looting does permanent harm, and once a site is disturbed, that knowledge cannot be put back.

The grinding stone echoes through eternity.

Today is Native Nonprofit Day, a national giving initiative focused on increasing support for Native-led organizations. At Grinding Stone Collective, we know that Native-led work requires more than project-based funding. It takes flexible support for the everyday needs that keep programs moving: staff time, planning, administration, transportation, supplies, outreach, and the unseen labor behind community care.

When you give to GSC, you help us continue our work in Indigenous food sovereignty, Native food access, education, stewardship, and support for Indigenous producers.

Your donation helps Native-led work grow, not just for one event or one program, but for the long-term infrastructure our communities deserve.

Support GSC today:
https://bit.ly/givenativegsc

Thank you to for amplifying work like ours!

AICH is opening a new chapter, and we’re grateful to be part of it.

Join the GSC at the (American Indian Community House) Open House on May 9th as they welcome the community into their new space! This marks a new chapter for AICH after years of relocation, and creates a real opportunity to grow programs and partnerships, like ours with the Intertribal Pantry, and deepen community access to Native wellness and the arts.

Ahead of the opening, we sat down with Executive Director Patricia Tarrant to talk about what this moment means, how community work was shaped by her late mother, Victoria Yellow-Wolf Tarrant, has shaped how AICH is thinking about community input, and what comes next.

Take a few minutes to read the full interview then come through on May 9th to see the space for yourself.

✒️ Read the interview: https://bit.ly/aichinterview
📍 Join us at the open house: Saturday, May 9 | 4–8 PM | 234 W 39th Street, 6th fl New York, NY 10018

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AICH is opening a new chapter, and we’re grateful to be part of it.

Join the GSC at the American Indian Community House Open House on May 9th as they welcome the community into their new space! This marks a new chapter for AICH after years of relocation, and creates a real opportunity to grow programs and partnerships, like ours with the Intertribal Pantry, and deepen community access to Native wellness and the arts.

Ahead of the opening, we sat down with Executive Director Patricia Tarrant to talk about what this moment means, how community work was shaped by her late mother, Victoria Yellow-Wolf Tarrant, has shaped how AICH is thinking about community input, and what comes next.

Take a few minutes to read the full interview then come through on May 9th to see the space for yourself.

🔗 Read the interview: https://bit.ly/aichinterview
📍Join us at the open house: Saturday, May 9 | 4–8 PM | 234 W 39th Street, 6th fl New York, NY 10018

Nipmuc foodways and lifeways shaped Sudbury long before the town had a name. This communal grinding stone is one of the few surviving examples of its kind in New England, a record of sustained labor that turned corn, grains, nuts, and beans into meal and flour, generation after generation.

In 2002, Sudbury considered creating a small “Grinding Stone Park” to protect and interpret the site, and although the proposal was ultimately withdrawn, care for the space has not disappeared. When we encounter living Indigenous heritage in public space, do we treat it as a backdrop or as a responsibility?

The grinding stone echoes through eternity!

Special thank you to for keeping local history alive.

Earth Day can bring attention to the work we do as Indigenous peoples, but it doesn’t carry it.

The work looks like this: showing up, getting your hands in the soil, learning together, and making sure the next generation knows how to continue it. It’s also about access, making sure people have what they need to grow, gather, harvest, preserve, and prepare their own foods in ways that make sense for their communities.

In cities especially, reconnecting to land takes true intention. It means creating spaces where there are none, sharing knowledge even when only a few show up, and supporting the people doing this work every day rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. If you have access to land, tend it. If you don’t, find ways to support those who do. If you’ve been taught something, pass it on.

That’s how life this continues.

See you soon @ Silberman School of Social Work: 2180 3rd Avenue, New York, NY 10035

With in full swing, we've also been invited to speak at this year’s Indigenous Food Policy Summit at alongside for two sessions centered on Indigenous foodways in urban communities for and of as keynote speaker:

🕖 7:15 PM – Rebuilding Indigenous Food Systems in Urban Diaspora Communities (Grinding Stone Collective)
🕢 7:45 PM – Lakota Foodways in Practice: Bapa Wasna & Frybread (Buffalo Jump NYC)

From rebuilding Indigenous food systems in diaspora spaces to learning Indigenous foodways, these sessions focus on what it takes to practice food sovereignty right now. If you’re in NYC, come through, learn, and be part of the conversation.

🗓 April 21
⏰ 6–9 PM
📍 Silberman School of Social Work: 2180 3rd Avenue, New York, NY 10035

RSVP using the link below or scan the QR code on the flyer
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indigenous-food-policy-summit-tickets-1984913301116