Putting Tribal Sovereignty in Food Sovereignty
Southwest and Great Basin FAQs - Farm Bill Roundtables 2021-2022 This region largely encapsulates Tribes and intertribal organizations from the southwestern U.S., including the Tribes of the Great Basin. Some attendees were from urban Indian communities in search of...
Southern Great Plains FAQs - Farm Bill Roundtables 2021-2022 This region largely encapsulates Tribes and intertribal organizations from the central U.S. south of the Dakotas. Roundtable attendees included Tribal government leaders and their agriculture and land staff....
Northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountains (North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming) FAQS - Farm Bill Roundtables 2021-2022 Attendees at these meetings hailed from Tribal communities across many of the northern Great Plains and north central Rockies. They included...
Great Lakes and Upper Midwest FAQs - Farm Bill Roundtables 2021-2022 Attendees at these meetings hailed from Tribal communities across the upper Midwest and Great Lakes regions. While there were many individual Tribal producers at these gatherings, there were equal...
Alaska FAQs - Farm Bill Roundtables 2021-2022 Responses came from attendees of three roundtables held in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau throughout 2021-22. Roundtable attendees were a mix of individual producers, Alaska Native government officials, Alaska Native...
Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, northern California) FAQS - Farm Bill Roundtables 2021-2022 This region largely encapsulates Tribes and intertribal organizations from the Pacific Northwest, including attendees from northern California Tribal communities. Many...
In late 2021 through the end of 2022, members of the Native Farm Bill Coalition (NFBC) traveled across the United States to facilitate roundtables and meet with Tribal leaders, agriculture producers, and nutrition experts ahead of the renewal of the Farm Bill. As the...
After a couple of tumultuous months, the Farm Bill is officially extended. In mid-November, just before Congress left town for the holiday break, the House and Senate agreed to a one-year extension of the current Farm Bill with a new expiration date of Sept. 30,...
As a founding organization and official research partner for the Native Farm Bill Coalition, the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative authored a report titled Gaining Ground: A Report on the 2018 Farm Bill Successes for Indian Country and Opportunities for 2023....
In December 2018, the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative published Optimizing Distribution Center Location and Delivery Schemes for the USDA’s Food DistributionProgram on Indian Reservations (FDPIR). Download the resource below.