NOVEMBER 22, 2024

<aside> 🔖 An Indigenous Foods Workshop with presenters Renee Sans Souci, Tim Thielen, and Kelsey Ryan-Simkins discussed Indigenous food sovereignty and how it connects to the Buffalo. The workshop detailed a story of Indigenous advanced farming technologies, oppression due to colonization, and now the resilience and vibrancy of a road to healing, restoration, and reconnection.

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Educational Resources:

Native Land Digital - https://native-land.ca

Land-Grab Universities - https://www.landgrabu.org/

Conservation Training, Indian Country 101 - https://www.conservationtraining.org/course/view.php?id=309

Great Plains Tribal Leaders Health Board - https://www.greatplainstribalhealth.org/

The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen by Beth Dooley and Sean Sherman

UNL Native American Coalition - https://nativecoalition.unl.edu

Turtle Island Trade Coalition - https://turtleisland.unl.edu/

Buffalo People by Renee Sans Souci

Souci showcases & shares Indigenous ways of thinking with a powerful motto: “We are the Buffalo & the Buffalo is Us.”

https://nebraskapublicmedia.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/native-americans-settlers-conservation-gallery/european-settlers-buffalo-conservation-video-gallery-the-american-buffalo/kenburnsclassroom/

https://www.thenicc.edu/about/history/omaha-tribe-of-ne-and-ia.php#:~:text=Buffalo served as their general,with the United States government

https://www.unpsk-12.org/page/mission-and-media

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billfrist/2024/04/16/buffalo-are-a-keystone-species-for-both-tribal-identity-and-grassland-health-heres-how-a-new-bill-could-help-native-american-tribes-welcome-buffalo-back-to-their-lands/?sh=374e841456e9

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-american-buffalo

Photo of a Buffalo acquired by Notion's Unsplash free photo database.

Modern Indigenity

There are even more examples, but a few were mentioned at our recent workshop.

https://visionmakermedia.org/

https://unityinc.org/