At the Akwesasne Mohawk Seed Hub: The Great Apple -- Food Sovereignty Photos by Jessica Shenandoah

At the Akwesasne Seed Hub: The Great Apple -- Food Sovereignty Photos by Jessica Shenandoah

Censored News, November 7, 2025

Jessica Shenandoah said, "Through my job at Thompson Island Cultural Camp, I partnered up with Ase Tsi Tewaton and Ionkwahronkha'onhátie' - We are becoming fluent to work on the elder care packages in a Kanienkeha immersed workshop. We canned apple sauce, made apple chips, canned grape jam and made apple pies. This morning we did an apple pie giveaway for elders. It was a great week Niawenkowa to everyone for helping!! Niawen to the Akwesasne Seed Hub for donating your space and to Nelson Jock for the produce!"

Gwich'in Caribou, Source of Food and Sacred Way of Life, Threatened by Oil and Gas Development

 

Photo courtesy Gwich'in Steering Committee

Gwich'in Caribou, Source of Food and Sacred Way of Life, Threatened by Oil and Gas Development

By Gwich'in Steering Committee, Censored News, Nov. 7, 2025

Kris Barney 'Remembering the Great Diné Foodways'

 

'Small gifts from the cornfield' Photo copyright Kris Barney

Kris Barney 'Remembering the Great Diné Foodways'

By Kris Barney, Dine', Censored News, Oct. 29, 2025

My grandma used to make mutton and goat jerky, dry steamed corn, preserve corn for long-term storage, dry apricots and peaches, dry cantaloupe melons, dry herbs and bulbs collected in the springtime; wild parsley, greens like wáá, mariposa lily, wild onions, dry out strips of winter pumpkin/squash and used all kinds of food preservation techniques. She even collected wild grass seed from Ndn ricegrass to save later and she grounded that to make flour and small cakes.

Blackfeet,Chippewa and Kickapoo Feed the People During Government Shutdown

Blackfeet, Chippewa and Kickapoo Feed the People During Government Shut Down

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Updated Oct. 29, 2025

The Blackfeet Nation in Montana is preparing to feed the people during the government shutdown by distributing buffalo meat and organizing an elk hunt. In North Dakota, the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Nation is keeping all its food programs going, with hot meals and bagged lunches, and making sure children, elderly and college students don't go hungry.

On the west coast, an Indigenous restaurant owned by Crystal Wahpepah, Kickapoo, is serving up free bison tacos for young ones and elders in Oakland, California.