Get Yourself Registered!Reserve Your Spot for the Food Sovereignty Summit It’s all coming together nicely! First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) and the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin (Oneida) again are co-hosting the national Food Sovereignty Summit. It will be held September 23-26, 2019, at the Radisson Hotel in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Summit agenda is...
Register Now!Please Join Us for the Food Sovereignty Summit Sept. 23-26 First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) and the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin (Oneida) again are co-hosting the national Food Sovereignty Summit. It will be held September 23-26, 2019, at the Radisson Hotel in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Summit agenda has been updated! It’s an awesome mix...
Another week passes, and another Trump-era trade irritant between the US and EU has been partially resolved. This time it’s the 2018 steel and aluminium tariffs the US slapped on European metals on contentious national security grounds. Europe retaliated with duties on a range of US goods, and despite halting an escalation in tariffs earlier this year, they had more...
US President Joe Biden was handed a number of ticking time bombs by his predecessor Donald Trump. One of them was an ongoing trade war with the EU, in which Trump had slapped tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium from Europe in 2018. The EU in turn launched retaliatory tariffs on everything from blue jeans to whiskey, and filed a complaint at the World Trade...
Earlier this year, First Nations launched our Green Jobs in Indian Country project, which invests in Native communities that are in the early stages of green job development in response to climate change. Since then our community partners have been busy, and we’re excited to share news of three of the 10 grantees, including Blackfeet Community College, Holani Hana...
In 2023, the Slim Buttes Agricultural Development (SBAG) program on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (founded in 1985) distributed seedlings, tilled gardens, refurbished raised beds, built and distributed planter boxes, conducted workshops about food preservation and how to use food as “medicine” to prevent diabetes, and promoted healthy lifestyles and overall well...