ONEIDA - What started as a program to teach low-income families about the importance of food nutrition in Oneida has grown into a critically crucial pillar to maintaining tribal sovereignty and culture and is helping to lead the way for all of Indian Country in the United States.
Tsyunhehkw^, or life sustenance in Oneida, is an agricultural community on the reservation that includes a certified organic farm, cannery and retail store on an 83-acre site.
Its goal is to produce Indigenous foods in the Indigenous way, not only for food security, but for food sovereignty.
The program started in 1978 by a small group of women who had set up nutrition, gardening and small farm classes at the Norbert Hill Center after an opportunity for grant funding became available.
Oneida organic farm, cannery, store offer Indigenous food sovereignty
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Oneida organic farm, cannery, store offer Indigenous food sovereignty
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GREEN BAY - A significant number of customers not wearing masks were seen this week shopping inside the Walmart on West Mason Street in Green Bay.
The CDC recently announced that fully vaccinated people can once again resume activities they did before the COVID-19 pandemic without wearing masks or physically distancing. Shortly after, Walmart representatives also announced that fully vaccinated people would no longer be required to wear masks inside its stores.
But there’s one caveat for the Walmart on West Mason Street. It’s on the Oneida Reservation.
The 65,000-acre reservation includes parts of Green Bay’s west side and Walmart, along with many other businesses, lease from the Oneida Nation. And the Oneida Nation is still under a public health state of emergency effective until at least July 11 as voted on by the Oneida Business Committee this month after a recommendation from the tribe’s public health officer.