Over the last few centuries, indigenous populations have been decimated as a result of the arrival of settlers primarily from Western Europe. For example, estimates of the population of North America ...

The fight for Native food sovereignty is more than just a return to traditional diets — it's an act of resistance, resilience and reclamation. Centuries of colonization, which methodically dismantled ...

A commemorative viewpoint in Wiyot territory highlights the importance of Wigi (Humboldt Bay) to the tribe. Learn about the Indigenous Food Sovereignty Movement and how it supports the ecocultural ...

Before settlers arrived in western Washington, Native Americans ate the abundant food, from the prairies, along or in the rivers or in the mountains. Gathering, hunting, and harvesting was a ...

Since she was 3 years old, Mariah Gladstone says, she has had a passion for food. After graduating from high school in northwest Montana, she studied environmental engineering at Columbia University ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Behind American Indian Hall on the Montana State University campus, ancient life is growing. Six-foot-tall corn plants tower over large green squash and black-and-yellow sunflowers.

Lisa Iron Cloud grew up poor. The Oglala Lakota woman's family moved frequently, sometimes living on the Pine Ridge reservation, other times in nearby Rapid City, South Dakota. Family meals came from ...

This web of food-centered relationships will take center stage at the California Native Plant Foods Celebration and Symposium, a first-of-its-kind event at the University of California, Davis. It will ...