Three Nebraska Tribes Are Buying Back Farmland, and Attempting to Reverse History goodmenproject.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from goodmenproject.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Six tribal colleges and universities were named recipients of a new grant program to promote Indigenous Foodways. Earlier this year, the Sovereign Equity Fund—a nonprofit focused on providing equitable funding access across Indian Country— announced the inaugural fund $2.4 million Cultural Foodways fund in collaboration with the Mellon Foundation and the Native American Agriculture Fund. The fund will grant six tribal colleges and universities each $200 thousand over two years for projects focused on learning about, sharing, and safeguarding the artistic, cultural and humanistic aspects of Native foodways, according to the nonprofit’s announcement this week.
Three Nebraska tribes are buying back farmland, and attempting to reverse history investigatemidwest.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from investigatemidwest.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Three Native tribes are rebuying back land that was once theirs, before the U.S. government took some and then desperation stole more. Getting it back isn’t cheap.
In the past five years, three Nebraska tribes – the Winnebago, the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska and the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska – have bought an estimated 3,000 acres, total, of farmland that was