Indigenous Kitchen was named one of the best cookbooks of the year by NPR, The Village Voice, Smithsonian Magazine, UPROXX, New York Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Mpls/St. Paul Magazine and others. The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen cookbook can be purchased from The Sioux Chef’s website.
Who are your community‘s well known cooks?
Who is preparing/catering meals for your community events?
Do your community events serve Indigenous inspired/local foods?
Indigenous Cookbooks: The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Cookbook
USDA-NIFA
Grant funding targeted specifically to Native communities for sustainable agriculture practices is fairly limited. Subsidies and agriculture assistance is given to the food producers with the greatest amount of political influence. There are, however, a number of organizations that provide limited assistance to Tribal communities that want to create a sustaining and environmentally friendly food source for rural communities. The United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) Tribal Programs offer five grants that specifically target Indian Country. According to USDA-NIFA, the 1994 Land- Grant Tribal colleges can apply for the following grants: (1) New Beginning for Tribal Students, which helps land-grant colleges and universities support Tribal students on their path to higher education; (2) Tribal Equity Grants Program, which funds formal learning at 1994 Land-Grant colleges; (3) Tribal Extension Grant Program, which supports community-based education at federally recognized Tribal colleges; (4) Tribal College Research Grant Program, which helps 1994 Land-Grant colleges become centers of scientific inquiry and learning for remote and rural reservation communities; and (5) The Federally-Recognized Tribes Extension Program, which funds extension programs on American Indian Reservations and in Tribal jurisdictions that address the unique needs and problems of American Indian Tribal nations through programs such as 4-H and Tribal youth development, agriculture and natural resource management, and
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