The University of Arkansas School of Law recently hosted
approximately 100 Native American, Native Alaskan and Native Hawaiian students
that belong to 51 tribes for a leadership summit that lasted 10 days.
Students learned how their tribal communities are affected by policies
involving food and agriculture.
The annual summit is in its third year of existence and is
sponsored and organized by the Arkansas School of Law’s Indigenous Food and
Agriculture Initiative.
The summit hosts multiple speakers, featuring topics such as the
history of American Indian Agriculture, business planning, ethnobotany and seed
preservation.
Those who spoke at the summit included Janie Hipp, who
is Chickasaw and the director of the Agriculture Initiative; Ross Racine, who
is Blackfeet and executive director of the Intertribal Agriculture Council; Professor
H.L. Goodwin, Dale Bumpers College of Agriculture, Food and Life Sciences; Stacy
Leeds, who is Cherokee and dean of the School of Law; Crystal Hawk, who is
Pawnee and from EchoHawk Consulting; Justin Wilson, who is Choctaw and from the
U.S. Department of the Interior; Mark Tilsen, who is Lakota Sioux and from
Native American Natural Foods; and Toni Stanger-McLaughlin, who is Colville and
the consulting attorney for the Agriculture Initiative.
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