Native American communities brace for potential loss of food assistance

Native American communities brace for potential loss of food assistance

Volunteers with the Rapid City-based non-profit COUP Council serve meals at the Pejuta Waste Day Center. (Courtesy of COUP Council) RAPID CITY – For many tribes, access to food is a treaty right, meaning the potential loss of funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Nov. 1 is yet another violation of trust and treaty obligations during the second-longest government shutdown in history. But Indigenous advocates in cities acros…