A near-empty warehouse for a Native American food distribution program. The federal Food Distribution Programs on Indian Reservations and other food programs are running out of staples such as fruit ...

In the waiting room at Sean Sherman’s Minneapolis restaurant, Owamni, a crowd gathers around the front desk. A seat doesn’t ...

The American Indian Center’s new Food is Medicine program marks a generational and culinary shift — through braised bison with a blackberry mole sauce, and a venison dip sandwich with giardiniera — ...

In her 2023 cookbook “Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky,” New Mexico-based chef and historian Lois Ellen Frank said the present era of Indigenous cuisine revolves around modern chefs understanding the ...

After seven years in the foster care system, he left Colorado Springs at age 16 and drove to the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where he was born, to rejoin his Sicangu Lakota tribe. He ...

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A bipartisan group of senators is calling on the USDA to address what they characterize as "unacceptable" services a federal food distribution program is providing to Native American reservations. The ...

If you stop at a roadside restaurant anywhere between North Dakota and Oklahoma, you might not immediately get a sense of culinary diversity. Many menus in rural and small-town middle America consist ...

If food is the way to the heart, then three Arizona chefs are on a mission to make Big Apple culinary power players fall in love by taking bites of Native American cuisine. Harnessing their personal ...

“They started providing us with government rations like lard and sugar and flour,” Tafoya says, referencing the Indian ...