Posted on Dec 9, 2023
With bison herds and ancestral seeds, Indigenous communities embrace food sovereignty
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Behind American Indian Hall on the Montana State University campus, ancient life is growing.
Six-foot-tall corn plants tower over large green squash and black-and-yellow sunflowers. Around the perimeter, stalks of sweetgrass grow. The seeds for some of these plants grew for millennia in Native Americans' gardens along the upper Missouri River.
It's one of several Native American ancestral gardens growing in the Bozeman area, totaling about an acre. Though small, the garden is part of a larger, multifaceted effort around the country to promote "food sovereignty" for reservations and tribal members off reservation, and to reclaim aspects of Native American food and culture that flourished in North America for thousands of years before the arrival of European settlers.
Behind American Indian Hall on the Montana State University campus, ancient life is growing.
Six-foot-tall corn plants tower over large green squash and black-and-yellow sunflowers. Around the perimeter, stalks of sweetgrass grow. The seeds for some of these plants grew for millennia in Native Americans' gardens along the upper Missouri River.
It's one of several Native American ancestral gardens growing in the Bozeman area, totaling about an acre. Though small, the garden is part of a larger, multifaceted effort around the country to promote "food sovereignty" for reservations and tribal members off reservation, and to reclaim aspects of Native American food and culture that flourished in North America for thousands of years before the arrival of European settlers.
With bison herds and ancestral seeds, Indigenous communities embrace food sovereignty
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."In consultation with Sherman, Montana State University is building the country's second Indigenous food lab, which will be housed in a new $29 million building with a state-of-the-art kitchen, Ramaker said. It will open next year and expand the ongoing work creating recipes, holding cooking workshops, feeding MSU's more than 800 Native students, and preparing cooking videos.
Angelina Toineeta, who is Crow, is studying the BNFSI at Montana State as part of her major in agriculture. "Growing these gardens really stuck out to me," she said. "Native American agriculture is something we've lost over the years, and I want to help bring that back."
..."In consultation with Sherman, Montana State University is building the country's second Indigenous food lab, which will be housed in a new $29 million building with a state-of-the-art kitchen, Ramaker said. It will open next year and expand the ongoing work creating recipes, holding cooking workshops, feeding MSU's more than 800 Native students, and preparing cooking videos.
Angelina Toineeta, who is Crow, is studying the BNFSI at Montana State as part of her major in agriculture. "Growing these gardens really stuck out to me," she said. "Native American agriculture is something we've lost over the years, and I want to help bring that back."
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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