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Food is medicine, says ethnobotanist and food sovereignty activist Linda Black Elk. Unfortunately, a lot of Native communities have been denied or warned off of their own medicine, she adds.
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The Puyallup Tribe announced last week that it is entering the $2 billion confectionery industry with the purchase of Fife, Wash.-based candy maker AMES International Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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U.S. Reps Derek Kilmer and Nick Langworthy introduced a bipartisan bill aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs for Tribal communities.
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The Tonto Apache Tribe said last week it would partner with Heritage Distilling Company to develop a spirits distillery and tasting room adjacent to the tribe’s Payson, Ariz.-based Mazatzal Hotel & Casino.
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Two Native enterprises purchased a stake in Arctic Circle Wild Seafood, a seafood purveyor based in the Inupiat Eskimo Village of Kotzebue, Alaska.
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With the Farm Bill’s 2023 reauthorization on the horizon this fall, a Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing this week revealed that tribal governments primarily want to govern themselves.
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WASHINGTON — New legislation that aims to expand food assistance for tribal households will be introduced in the U.S. Senate today, Tribal Business News has learned.
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As discussions on the 2023 Farm Bill intensify, a provision in the legislation’s previous incarnation is finally coming to pass in the form of a Tribal Advisory Committee under the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Public universities could soon be reaching out to tribal partners to strengthen local supply lines, improve regional food supplies, and shore up defenses against climate change through improved biodiversity and heartier regional varieties of plants and breeds of animals.
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With climate change creating once-in-a-generation weather events this summer, the need for research on plant and animal resilience is becoming increasingly apparent.