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https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/lakota-rancher-to-head-farm-service-agency
“Today, the Brownotter Buffalo Ranch on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation sprawls over 20,000 acres, home to a herd of 600. His herd is part of a buffalo resurgence at Standing Rock that also includes native herds owned by the tribe and others.”
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The Native American Agriculture Fund (NAAF) would like to invite you to a listening session on February 18th, 2021 at 2pm Central Time. This inagural session begins a series of sessions which will be held the 3rd Thursday of every month throughout the year. This listening session is an opportunity for NAAF to listen to Indian Country. In addition, we will have an opportunity for participants to ask questions regarding the NAAF organization. This is open to the public.
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In today’s challenging farm financial climate, having a positive lender relationship is key for farmers and ranchers. How can you be best prepared to work with your lender? Join this series of webinars to learn how to be well prepared for lender meetings, thus cultivating a positive borrower relationship. We will cover preparing a balance sheet to convey your financial position; understanding the Sch. F tax form to show farm profitability; and telling your story to your lender, preparing a cash flow plan and other business planning tools, share farm profitability and ensure full access to farm programs.
Topic: Native American Producers Finance Toolkit Series
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After decades of battling misinformation, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes recover their lands and the herd.
“WE ARE SUCH A PLACE-BASED PEOPLE. TO HAVE THIS LAND BACK, TO BE IN CONTROL OF IT, IS A FRESH, NEW HOPE.”
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https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.2/indigenous-affairs-tribes-reclaiming-the-national-bison-range
Washington, D.C. — In its push to protect 30 percent of U.S. lands and ocean by 2030—known as the 30×30 plan—the Biden administration should respect tribal sovereignty and support conservation efforts led by Indigenous communities, according to a new issue brief from the Center for American Progress.
By pledging to provide Native American tribes with a greater role in the care and management of public lands, President Joe Biden has shown a willingness to confront the injustices that affect nearly all aspects of U.S. natural resource policy, the brief says. These include not only the history of land theft, erasure and genocide, but also the government’s continued failure to meet its trust and treaty obligations to tribal nations and failure to recognize the integral contributions that Indigenous peoples have made to biodiversity and the climate.
“Recognizing, supporting and funding Indigenous-led conservation is not just a legal and moral imperative, but also a way to build the most effective conservation policies,” said Sahir Doshi, author of the issue brief and a research assistant at CAP. “It’s time to restore decision-making power to those who have the right and record to wield it best.”
The new administration has an opportunity to show that it will keep a respect for tribal sovereignty at the center of the broader 30×30 plan. It should ensure that tribes are included early in the process at the highest level of decision-making. New conservation opportunities should also be made available to tribes with funding and flexibility. By meaningfully prioritizing tribal sovereignty, the administration can strive to meet its trust and treaty obligations, rather than once again offering lofty language without the backing of institutional muscle.
CAP’s recommends that the Biden administration establish a tribal-led task force to advise the interior secretary on tribal priorities for natural resource management and the pursuit of 30×30. The task force should make recommendations that would:
- Ground all agency dealings and consultations with tribes in respect for tribal sovereignty
- Provide tribes with the funds and flexibility needed to execute their vision
- Build on the Bears Ears National Monument model to enable genuine tribal co-management on public lands
- Respect and protect traditional ecological knowledge from erasure and exploitation
- Explore new ideas to recognize Indigenous-led conservation, especially of sacred sites and culturally significant resources
- Support key tribal priorities like homeland restoration
Read the issue brief: “The Biden Administration’s Conservation Plan Must Prioritize Indigenous Leadership” by Sahir Doshi
For more information on this topic or to speak with an expert, please contact Sam Hananel at gro.ssergorpnacirema@lenanahs.
Article published May 7, 2020 in the New York Times.
Authored by Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee.
“This is how deep it goes. Even an essay calling for a fairer America missed the injustice at the core of the nation’s character.”
The United States is well known for technological break throughs, but at what cost do our centers of research come, and what historical implications are there? The New York Times hosts an opinion piece that discusses the Morrill Act of 1862, which appropriated land to fund agricultural and mechanical colleges, also known as land-grant universities.
“But ask who paid for it, and who’s still paying today?”. These universities were transferred lands by the U.S., acquired from decades of conflict with Indigenous peoples that the U.S. paid little to nothing for, transferring the cost in so many ways to the peoples native to North America.
Read the full article here.
NAAF is honored to have participated in the development of an article published in Native Science Report titled “Growing Sovereignty”. Read here (https://nativesciencereport.org/2020/05/growing-sovereignty/) to hear from CEO Janie Hipp (Chickasaw) and Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson (Hopi).