AICHO's Focus on Indigenous Food Sovereignty and Access

In our Anishinaabe migration story, we were told to “go to where the food grows on water.” Since our migration, Anishinaabeg have centered one of our food staples manoomin (wild rice) into our meals, ceremonies, trade items, shared with our neighbors, and created an Indigenous economy that helps sustain our Indigenous food producers and entreprenuers’ livelihoods through their farms and businesses.

This new video produced by AICHO and Jeremy Gardner of DanSan Creatives speaks to the power and spirit of our local and Indigenous foods, tribal food producers such as Native Wise, LLC who is featured here, Indigenous economy, and the importance of having ancestral and healthy food access for/with our communities with AICHO’s Indigenous First CSA and intertribal Indigenous food box initiative during the pandemic, and many key partnerships with Indigenous food producers/farmers in our region and beyond!

Chi miigwech to AICHO staff members Jazmin Wong (Indigenous First Gift Shop Coordinator) and LeAnn Littlewolf (Economic Development Director) and David (Fond du Lac Band of Ojibwe) and Patra Wise for your involvement in this vid and in the Indigenous Food Sovereignty movement at AICHO and in our communities. Miigwech to all the Indigenous food producers doing the critical, cultural hard work to provide our communities with access and connection to and with traditional, healing foods.

Our current and former grant funders include: First Nations Development Institute, Minnesota Department of Health, Minnesota Department of Human Services, Center for Prevention, Notah Begay III Foundation, Hunger Solutions, Northland Foundation, Ordean Foundation, Northwest Area Foundation, McKnight Foundation, Enterprise Community Partners, Bush Foundation and ARAC.

Video Production: DanSan Creatives

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This is an amazing gift shop, local art, wild rice, books, clothing, calendars, purses, just to name a few of the beautiful gifts they sell. Something for everyone!