Food Sovereignty: How Osage People Will Grow Fresh Foods Locally

Author

Year

2015

Growing fresh and local foods for Osage people is now a revived approach to food sovereignty for the Osage Nation so efforts to find the most successful methods are being looked into by leadership and community members. On Feb. 7, the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture along with the Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology Okmulgee hosted the eighth annual workshop for ‘plasticulture’ farming workshops...

cultural education

cultural preservation

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Native Nations

Osage Nation

Resource Type

News and Opinion

Topics

Environment and Natural Resources

Citation

HorseChief-Hamilton, Geneva. "Food Sovereignty: How Osage People Will Grow Fresh Foods Locally." Indian Country Today. February 12, 2015. Article. (https://ictnews.org/archive/food-sovereignty-how-osage-people-will-grow-fresh-foods-locally, accessed May 5, 2023)

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