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Our project joins a long list of food sovereignty initiatives in the region’s Tribal communities. Some examples include:

The Great Lakes Intertribal Food Coalition’s Tribal Elder Food Box Program, begun in 2021, provides healthy, culturally appropriate food to elders and creates a guaranteed market for Tribal food producers. In 2023, the program delivered 570,000 food boxes to 3,750 elders from all 11 federally recognized Tribal Nations in Wisconsin.
The Wild Rice in the Classroom project engages teachers and K-12 students in hands-on learning and conservation in the Green Bay coastal wetlands. In 2022, more than 400 students participated in their classrooms or on field trips to local marshes.
The Indigenous Seed Keepers Network is a national network supporting Tribal seed sovereignty projects.
The Red Cliff Fish Company, owned and operated by the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, enables Tribal anglers to provide fresh, nutritious fish to the community while also acting as guardians and stewards of the ecosystem.
The Tribal Climate Adaptation Menu, developed by a diverse group of collaborators representing Tribal, academic, intertribal and government entities in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, reveals how climate change is impacting plant and animal relatives, including those traditionally key to Indigenous food systems in the region.
Gikinoo’wizhiwe Onji Waaban (Guiding for Tomorrow) and Minisan integrate Traditional Ecological Knowledge and academic research around the impacts of climate change on Indigenous lifeways in the Great Lakes region.
With Tribal and regional partners, Wisconsin Sea Grant has developed a Manoomin Education and Outreach Toolkit to increase awareness of wild rice’s cultural and spiritual significance, as well as its important ecological functions.
In an effort to reduce health disparities, Family Health La Clinica’s Mobile Migrant Health Services travels to farming and ranching worksites to provide healthcare to migrant and seasonal agricultural workers across Wisconsin.
The UW Arboretum Indigenous Research Garden creates an interactive space to share traditional foodways in Dejope, including growing the Three Sisters and tapping maple trees.

A bright green corn field with a bright blue sky in the background — Photo Credit Hanna McIntosh

Our Tribal partners include individuals affiliated with several of these existing efforts, and our project seeks to complement and amplify their impacts.