FNS Honors Traditions and Supports the Sovereignty of Tribal Nations

Posted by Alison Onerous, Senior Coverage Advisor for the Meals and Vitamin Service in

Food and Nutrition
Nutrition Security

Aug 18, 2022

FNS Senior Policy Advisor Ali Hard participated in a traditional buffalo harvest with members of the Oglala Sioux tribe, FNS Mountain Plains Region staff, and staff from the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service

Tribal nations throughout what we now take into account the Nice Plains relied for millennia on their buffalo kinfolk for meals, drugs, clothes, instruments, and shelter. But immediately it’s exhausting to search out buffalo meat on faculty meal trays within the very areas the place they as soon as sustained Native communities. The Meals and Vitamin Service (FNS) is working with tribal companions to determine why and to take away the boundaries we will.

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