Despite the chill still in the air—and the snows occasionally falling—spring will soon be calling. So get ready to head into the forests and plains to harvest. You can find the fixings for a simple green salad – wild lettuce, sow thistle and dandelions—or else search out nettles and wild game. Whatever your preference, there are (more)
Interest in the annual Wild Food Summit at White Earth Tribal and Community College keeps growing. “I believe that wilds foods are alive in a way that other foods are not,” says local Robert Shimek (Red Lake Band of Ojibwe). 
A sample of extension programs offered through Northwest Indian College campuses.
Incorporating culture — as well as gardening and high-quality food — into treatment honors the healing process of patients at Norhtwest Indian Treatment Center.
Casual conversation leads to seven-year collaboration on diabetes-related research.
Knowing that food sovereignty is an expression of tribal sovereignty, tribal college land grand educators learn from the past while banking on the future.
Farm and ranch experts from Navajo Technical College (NTC, Crownpoint, NM) and Diné College (Tsaile, AZ) recently traveled to Mexico to collaborate with agriculturalists there. The July 6-9 collaboration focused upon recognizing each person’s knowledge – and building upon that knowledge rather than imposing foreign solutions. “They have the same barriers and the same type (more)
Little Big Horn College (LBHC, Crow Agency, MT) broke ground in July 2010 for an $8 million health and wellness center. The new center is designed to meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver environmental guidelines and improve health education on the Crow Reservation. Cancer is the leading cause of death on the (more)
“In our culture,” says Coloradas Mangas, “we don’t talk about death.” Mangas (Mescalero Apache) testified at a U.S. Senate Committee of Indian Affairs hearing March 25, 2010, on the escalating suicide rate among American Indians. Mangas, 15, lost five friends to suicide over a two-year period.
United Tribes Technical College student Allison Albers gained hands-on experience working with middle school children during summer internship at USDA Agriculture Research Service.
