Introduction to one of several workshops at the Great Lakes Intertribal Food Summit devoted to collecting seeds and creating seed banks, how to prepare and preserve your seeds is given by Rowen White, (Akwesasne Mohawk).
The day before the official opening of this year’s annual Great Lakes Intertribal Food Summit, Kevin Finney the director of the Gun Lake Pottawatomi Tribe’s Jijak Camp, the host of the event discusses evaporating at the Tribe’s sugar shack.
The four day conference opened on Thursday April 21st, with 4 days of activities around Food Sovereignty with Indigenous growers, producers, program managers and agency resources on site. The conference also features over a dozen Indigenous chefs from through-out the western Hemisphere cooking the meals with Native foods, spices and medicines.
Here is the almost final program for the 2016 Great Lakes Intertribal Food Summit (click the link below). We’re working on a few small updates before sending the printer, but here’s your first sneak peak. Among the many highlights, we’re excited to feature
The Great Lakes Intertribal Food Summit is three weeks away. We’re excited to announce that we have a dozen top Native chefs confirmed, and a great lineup of workshops, presentations, and activities.
Registration is still open, and we’re accepting scholarship applications through April 4th. Here’s the draft agenda:
The Great Lakes Intertribal Food Summit at Red Lake on September 16-17 features a great agenda and Indigenous foods prepared by Native chefs, including the Sioux Chef Sean Sherman. Is there something you’d like to see on the agenda? Feel free to submit your input in the comment box below. Registration is now open. We are currently accepting scholarship applications.
Here is the agenda: glifs_red lake_full schedule_082516.
Some highlights include:
The Native Youth in Food & Agriculture Great Lakes Summit will be held April 22-24 in conjunction with the Great Lakes Intertribal Food Summit at Gun Lake Pottawatomi’s Jijak Camp in Hopkins, MI.
This youth summit will bring together Tribal youth from around the Great Lakes Region, providing amazing learning opportunities in seed saving, culinary arts, food business planning, and many other important topics. Application forms for participants as well as group leaders are available below.
The Great Lakes Intertribal Food Summit will be held at the Gun Lake Pottawatomi’s Jijak Camp from April 21-24, 2016. An open planning call in January will give opportunities for input, and we welcome additional partners.
The 2015 IAC Membership Meeting was a great success. Several hundred attendees, including nearly 80 Native youth attended. Among the highlights were an engaging presentation from Jason Weller who is the Chief of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and presentations from the youth on their efforts to develop agricultural business plans.
Membership forms for the Intertribal Agriculture Council are available at:
The Intertribal Agriculture Council is offering a series of webinars on topics related to Indian agriculture. All webinar recordings are posted on the “IndianAg” YouTube channel. To date, most topics have focused on USDA programs, with USDA program staff covering the essentials of major assistance programs. Additional topics will be added in the near future. Comment below if there are topics you’d like to learn more about.
The Value Added Producer Grant will be covered on June 4, 2015 at 2:00pm CDT. Check flyer below for access information.
The Great Lakes Intertribal Food Summit 2016 is being hosted by the Gun Lake Pottawatomi Tribe at the Jijak Camp in Hopkins, Michigan from April 21-24, 2016. The agenda is currently being developed, and an open planning call will be held Wednesday, January 13 at 1:00pm central. The call-in number for the planning call is 866-614-2162 and the conference code is 987 one-one-four 7244.
Great Lakes Region IAC Website 