US EditionHow Trump's funding freeze for Indigenous food programs may violate treaty law
- All $5 million of food sovereignty grants were frozen, halting initiatives for healthy and culturally appropriate food, leading to uncertainty about their future resumption.
- President Trump's freezing of funding has shocked the agriculture sector, raising questions about federal commitments to Indigenous nations regarding food security.
- Food sovereignty programs are vital for combating climate change, yet Trump's directives have jeopardized ongoing projects aimed at enhancing Indigenous communities' access to nutritious food.
- Indigenous groups are suing the Trump administration for cuts to educational funding, claiming it violates federal trust responsibilities.
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Trump’s funding freeze of Indigenous food programs may violate treaty law
According to legal experts, the cutoff erodes the little trust Indian Country has in the federal government. The post Trump’s funding freeze of Indigenous food programs may violate treaty law appeared first on High Country News.
How Trump's funding freeze for Indigenous food programs may violate treaty law
This story was produced by Grist and co-published with High Country News. Jill Falcon Ramaker couldn’t believe what she was hearing on the video call. All $5 million dollars of her and her colleagues’ food sovereignty grants were frozen. She watched the faces of her colleagues drop. Ramaker is Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe and the director of Buffalo Nations Food Sovereignty at Montana State University – a program that supports Indigenous foodways…
Native Communities Negatively Effected by Trump Administration’s Recent Cuts to Federal Funding
Tribal nations, including the Catawba Indian Nation, begin to feel the effects of recent eliminations of federal grants and layoffs, impacting areas such as food security and health services. As President Trump nears his hundredth day in office, federal agencies and employees are making sense of the expansive workforce cuts and proposals to freeze federal funding the administration threatened as part of its initiative to shrink the size of the …
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