Nov 25, 2021

USDA turns an eye toward Indigenous partnerships, food security

Tobacco bounces on a drum during Indigenous Peoples' Day celebrations at the Daybreak Star Cultural Center on Oct.13, 2014 in Seattle, Washington. David Ryder/Getty Images

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USDA looks at ways to help restore Indigenous foodways

by Savannah Peters

Nov 25, 2021

The agency is partnering with groups aiming to add more buffalo to tribal diets and to create an heirloom seed repository, among others.

"It’s very important to get buffalo back into our diet and back into the plates of our community members," said Jason Baldes of the InterTribal Buffalo Council. Above, an American bison, sometimes called buffalo, circa 1930.

Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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