Putting Tribal Sovereignty
in Food Sovereignty
IFAI is back to policy briefs after a one-week hiatus following our annual Tribal Youth Summit. We have updated Congressional notes from the last two weeks, including Senate Appropriations hearing on FY2026 USDA-FDA funding, Senate Indian Affairs nomination...
No IFAI Policy Brief next week, July 14. IFAI staff will be engaged in the 11th annual Tribal Youth Summit. Read more about the Summit here. A Federal Register notice this week has a call for comments by July 30 on an interim final rule that removes several USDA...
IFAI’s 11th annual Tribal Youth Summit starts next week, read more about it here. The Indian Health Service is hosting four In-Person Tribal Consultations and one Virtual Consultation starting July 8 proposed realignment and strategic changes. Several Federal...
The Department of the Interior will hold the last two consultations on June 24 and 26 with Tribal leaders about the Department’s DRAFT FY2026 - 2030 Strategic Plan. It’s a busy week in the House of Representatives, with House Appropriations holding a Monday night a...
The Department of the Interior will hold further consultations from June 17 - 26 with Tribal leaders about the Department’s DRAFT FY2026 - 2030 Strategic Plan. There are several Federal Register notices from FNS this week, including one about ending the requirement...
IFAI has a template letter for Tribes interested in commenting on USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service rescinding a 2023 final rule that removed “visual observation” by State agencies on the collection of race and ethnicity data. Comments are due June 15 to USDA. On...
Summary IFAI has a template letter for Tribes interested in commenting on USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service rescinding a 2023 final rule that removed “visual observation” by State agencies on the collection of race and ethnicity data. Comments are due June 15 to...
IFAI has a template letter for Tribes interested in commenting on USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service rescinding a 2023 final rule that removed “visual observation” by State agencies on the collection of race and ethnicity data. Comments are due June 15 to USDA. ...
Summary IFAI is working on a template letter for Tribes interested in commenting on USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service rescinding a 2023 final rule that removed “visual observation” by State agencies on the collection of race and ethnicity data. The template letter...
Summary Check out IFAI's Blog Post about USDA’s Secretarial Memo concerning the department’s unique government-to-government and political relationship “Indian Tribes, American Indian Tribal citizens and Alaska Natives, and the Native Hawai’ian Community.” The Bureau...