Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture made a seemingly straightforward logistical shift to the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), which provides USDA foods to ...

WASHINGTON — New legislation that aims to expand food assistance for tribal households will be introduced in the U.S. Senate today, Native News Online has learned. Sens. Patty Murray (D-WA) and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The shelves are nearly empty inside the warehouse for Spirit Lake Nation commodity foods program. The federal commodity foods ...

The House Agriculture Committee is pressing USDA to explain its decision to consolidate contractors for the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations, a move that has resulted in food shortages ...

President Trump’s massive spending bill, signed into law last July, strips tribes of billions in clean energy spending and ...

Indigenous entrepreneurs in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand are popularizing traditional tribal foods with urban restaurants, reports Mongabay India’s Kundan Pandey. “The food we crave isn’t ...

RIDGEFIELD — One March afternoon, rain clouds parted, revealing a gentle glow onto the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge’s sloping grasslands and woodlands below. A group of Cowlitz Indian Tribe ...

Tribal leaders, government officials, and honored guests gathered at a cornflower blue warehouse Thursday to celebrate the grand opening of a new food distribution warehouse where tribal elders, ...

Advice and resources to help American Indian tribes grow and consume their own food is the focus of the 11 th annual Nevada Tribal Food Summit, May 31 to June 2. The summit will be taking place for ...

White fish, cranberry, maple sugar, zucchini, kale, sweet corn. These were some of the foods in the Tribal Elder Food Box distributed at the Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center on Historic Mitchell ...