The annual IAC symposium will take place this December 5-9 in Las Vegas at the flamingo Hotel. Made of producers from around the country will gather to share success stories, particularly relating to the of USDA programs.
Check PDF link below for more information and symposium registration.
In the meantime, check out the main IAC website for more information:
The keepsake a legal settlement provides compensation for discrimination against American Indian farmers and ranchers who unsuccessfully applied for USDA Farm during the 1980s 1990. Compensation ranges from $50,000-$250,000 depending on number of total claimants and claimants track.
The final deadline to apply is December 27, 2011
More details will be posted shortly
Join the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center and the Intertribal Agriculture and partners, including the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance (NAFSA), for a Roundtable on Tribal Cooperative Development and Value Added Products in Madison, Wisconsin on Tuesday morning, June 5th. Register online for the Tuesday morning Roundtable and Indigenous Seeds Project by clicking here. In addition to this half-day session, there are several related events occurring in Madison from June 4-6, including the
Registration for the Ethnobotany Conference is required to attend the Food Sovereignty on Turtle Island Symposium on Monday, June 4th. We do have a limited number of registrations for that conference, as well as lodging support. Please contact daniel.cornelius@wisc.edu to RSVP or for more information.
This blog is the place to come for information about tribal agriculture in the Great Lakes Region. It’s important to note that “agriculture”, especially in this area, broadly encompasses all forms of food production like fisheries, wild rice, and maple sugar rather than simple historic conception of agriculture as merely a farmer plowing the fields.
Great Lakes Region IAC Website 