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 ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the lack of healthy food options on Native reservations a “genocide.” Now the Trump administration has ended a program intended to fix the problem.

Food banks, vendors, and tribal leaders consistently reach out to tribal food assistance programs, offering resources and support. This “shows they care,” Greene-Trottier said.

Gathering wild foods, sharing, teaching, cooking, and tending have all been an opportunity to grow and heal in the nurturing way I didn’t know I needed.” ...

News Food Lawmakers press USDA on shortages in tribal food assistance program 08/23/24 3:52 PM By Rebekah Alvey Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Food Distribution Program in McAlester, Oklahoma ...

Bellanger came back to work for her tribe’s food distribution program a few years ago, which now serves 234 households and more than 500 people and is open for food assistance every Tuesday ...

More than 25% of Native American households face food insecurity. “FDPIR is a vital program because we’ve had participants that this is their only food source,” Fuller said.

In 2021, the Tribal Elder Food Box program began in response to a shortage of food for Native elders, said Carolee Dodge Francis, who chairs the department of civil society community studies in ...