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DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NorthDakota</a> tribe goes back to its roots with a massive greenhouse operationBy The Associated Press Published: Jul. 6, 2024 at 2:17 PM EDTBISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — "A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativeAmerican</a> tribe in North Dakota will soon grow lettuce in a giant greenhouse complex that when fully completed will be among the country’s largest, enabling the tribe to grow much of its own food decades after a federal <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dam</a> flooded the land where they had cultivated corn, beans and other crops for millennia."Work is ongoing on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mandan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mandan</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hidatsa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hidatsa</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arikara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arikara</a> Nation’s 3.3-acre greenhouse that will make up most of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeGreenGrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativeGreenGrow</a> operation’s initial phase. However, enough of the structure will be completed this summer to start growing leafy greens and other crops such as tomatoes and strawberries." 'We’re the first farmers of this land,' Tribal Chairman <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarkFox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MarkFox</a> said. 'We once were part of an aboriginal trade center for thousands and thousands of years because we grew crops — corn, beans, squash, watermelons — all these things at massive levels, so all the tribes depended on us greatly as part of the aboriginal trade system.'"The tribe will spend roughly $76 million on the initial phase, which also will include a warehouse and other facilities near the tiny town of Parshall. It plans to add to the growing space in the coming years, eventually totaling about 14.5 acres, which officials say would make it one of the world’s largest facilities of its type."The initial greenhouse will have enough glass to cover the equivalent of seven football fields."The tribe’s fertile land along the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MissouriRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MissouriRiver</a> was inundated in the mid-1950s when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GarrisonDam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GarrisonDam</a>, which created <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LakeSakakawea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LakeSakakawea</a>."Getting fresh produce has long been a challenge in the area of western North Dakota where the tribe is based, on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FortBerthold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FortBerthold</a> Indian Reservation. The rolling, rugged landscape — split by Lake Sakakawea — is a long drive from the state’s biggest cities, Bismarck and Fargo."That isolation makes the greenhouses all the more important, as they will enable the tribe to provide food to the roughly 8,300 people on the Fort Berthold reservation and to reservations elsewhere. The tribe also hopes to stock <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodBanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FoodBanks</a> that serve isolated and impoverished areas in the region, and plans to export its produce."Initially, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MHANation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MHANation</a> expects to grow nearly 2 million pounds of food a year and for that to eventually increase to 12 to 15 million pounds annually. Fox said the operation’s first phase will create 30 to 35 jobs."The effort coincides with a national move to increase <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FoodSovereignty</a> among tribes."Read more: <a href="https://www.kfyrtv.com/2024/07/06/north-dakota-tribe-goes-back-its-roots-with-massive-greenhouse-operation/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.kfyrtv.com/2024/07/06/north-dakota-tribe-goes-back-its-roots-with-massive-greenhouse-operation/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SolarPunkSunday</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FoodSecurity</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativeAmericans</a>

DoomsdaysCW[Short film] <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tahnaanooku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tahnaanooku</a>'Justin Deegan (Arikara, Oglala, and Hunkpapa) with Jennifer Martel (Cheyenne)"A grandmother. A source of existence. A portal to other worlds. For thousands of years, the Indigenous Peoples of what is now known as North and South Dakota co-existed reciprocally with the Missouri River, its waters offering life while also inspiring legends and languages. In Tahnaanooku’, filmmaker Justin Deegan takes an experimental approach to the severing of this relationship between his community — the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara — and the river, the result of over 80 years of US government efforts to control the Missouri, including via the Garrison Dam."Seen through the eyes of Deegan’s mother, Darline, Tahnaanooku’ intertwines past, present, and future, land and language, dreams and reality. The staunching of the Missouri contrasts with a fluid streak of horses, the diminished river currents interweave with the light of the aurora borealis. In dreams, Darline — a designer, activist, mother, and grandmother — receives messages from the original Mother, Earth itself. Meanwhile, the stark visual backdrop of the Garrison Dam offers an immovable reminder of the ruinous history of the Pick-Sloan Plan, deemed by legendary historian Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux) to be 'the single most destructive act ever perpetrated on any tribe by the United States.'"Glimpsed in ceremony, Darline (one of the last speakers of the critically endangered ancient Arikara language) offers care to a fellow grandmother and shares hope for the generations to come."Watch: <a href="https://www.reciprocity.org/films/tahnaanooku" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reciprocity.org/films/tahnaanooku</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arikara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arikara</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StandingRockSioux</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mandan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mandan</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hidatsa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hidatsa</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arikara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arikara</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MotherEarth</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MissouriRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MissouriRiver</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GarrisonDam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GarrisonDam</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DCEFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DCEFF</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousStorytellers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousStorytellers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousFilms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousFilms</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LandDefenders</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReciprocityProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ReciprocityProject</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Reciprocity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Reciprocity</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousFilmMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousFilmMakers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousWisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousWisdom</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousKnowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousKnowledge</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Reciprocity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Reciprocity</a>

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