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奥马哈部落农贸市场
Coming together with partners can often help stretch valuable resources for a project, 但它也可以扩大和改善项目本身的成果. That's what 发生在内布拉斯加州东北部 内布拉斯加州印第安社区学院 joined forces with the Omaha Tribe, the Santee Sioux Tribe and the Center for Rural Affairs 为了在食品主权评估工作中获得更多的回报.
l land-grant institution since 1994, serves the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska at its Macy 校园，以及内布拉斯加州桑蒂校区的桑蒂苏族部落. It also has a campus site in 内布拉斯加州的南苏市, according to Mike Berger, pg电子app下载 grant writer.
In keeping with its commitment to serve the two tribal nations, pg电子app下载 was one of the recipients of grants awarded to 39 Native American tribes and organizations to help them conduct food sovereignty or community food assessments in their various locales, from 2016 to 2017. 第一民族发展研究所(First Nations)提供了总额近65万美元的赠款，该赠款是在其“本土农业和农业”项目下提供的 粮食系统倡议得到了世界粮食计划署的慷慨支持.K. Kellogg Foundation and 土著人民潮汐基金.
The grant allowed pg电子app下载 to partner with the Santee and Omaha tribal governments and programs, and the Center for Rural Affairs (CFRA) located in Lyons, Nebraska, to carry out activities to encourage community participation in the food sovereignty assessments. Berger是pg电子app下载的资助人，也是这个项目的资助经理.
Expanding Reach
我们在三个地点为170名学生提供服务，教职员工不到10人. Were 一个很小的部落学院如果没有合作我们不可能实施 food sovereignty project. 我们的员工和合作伙伴有限 极大地扩展了我们对社区的影响，伯杰说.
The tribes, pg电子app下载 and CFRA first held group and individual discussion groups to talk about the food sovereignty projects for both tribes, and the goals of gaining a broader 了解目前的桑提苏族和奥马哈食物系统，以及如何建立 根据他们的项目所服务的社区的兴趣和支持 report to First Nations.
Information was shared at several locations in each tribes community, including the Omaha Pow Wow Committee meetings, Omaha Advisory Health Fair, the Santee Health Center, 还有沃尔希尔图书馆等等.
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Surveys were handed out to community members at various events, and were gone over one to one at some events like the Rosalie Old Settlers Days, the Santee Health Center 糖尿病项目希腊沙拉烹饪班，以及奥马哈租户教育班.
面对面活动
虽然社交媒体被用来向社区传播最初的信息，但它 was the activities that were held in person that were the most successful when talking about food sovereignty and getting surveys, which in the end numbered more than 500 两个部落的参与者总数.
该调查确定并确定了我们需要解决的问题和有趣的问题 pathways that we are looking at delving into for the delivery of vegetables such as mobile veggie vans and working with the tribes to develop a delivery system for people 谁要新鲜蔬菜?. 在当地的杂货店，蔬菜是进口的， 但有了一个移动杂货店，可以为当地农民创造一个市场 Berger.
移动蔬菜车的想法不仅可以提供新鲜农产品，而且 also fill in the transportation gap that many tribal members experience on both reservations. Even if someone has access to a car, they face an hour or longer drive, one way, just 去最近的大卖场. 再加上汽油和汽车保养的费用，还有这个 对许多部落成员来说，去买新鲜农产品的旅行往往是遥不可及的.
果冻车间演示
In addition to creating access to heathier fresh fruits and vegetables, the surveys indicated there is a strong interest in revitalizing the growing of traditional foods within the existing community gardens and providing access to traditional foods to 不能自己种植的社区成员.
社区希望看到一个本地种子银行的出现，在那里种子和根 股票可以重新引入. 但是不要把种子送出去，而是把它留在社区里 然后他们拥有社区的股票，伯杰说.
传统食品吸引兴趣
有一些传统食物在学习方面引起了很大的兴趣 如何种植或获取食物，如何准备传统菜肴.
鹿肉、南瓜和玉米是最受欢迎的三种传统食品 participants, so for us as a college, were interested in what types of foods the community members are interested in. 这对我们了解当地的农民也是有好处的 伯杰说.
CFRA oversees farmers markets on behalf of both tribes and there is a great interest by both the food producers and consumers to have access to more locally-grown foods. In addition, interest in family or community gardens and container gardens has been 在过去的几年里，这两个部落社区的死亡人数都在增加. CFRA works with both tribes and offers garden technical assistance for the challenging growing conditions. 仅在2017年，就有近300个支持请求.
社区花园已经开始蓬勃发展. 还有烹饪和罐头作坊 are offered so we can better educate the community on food safety, drying and canning, CFRA的社区食品专家、奥马哈部落成员苏西·弗兰奇说.
Berger added that often it is hard for people to imagine that there are food inequities or food deserts in their part of the country, as here were surround by corn, but its all feed for cattle.
粮食主权评估已经对奥马哈和 桑蒂苏部落社区和pg电子伯杰 added. The assessments now provide the groundwork and direction for further community-developed proposals to address such areas as the seed bank, how the college fits within food sovereignty, and the overall impact on the health and wellness of all the communities.
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MATC培训中美交通中心学者计划
OCT 26, 2016
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October 26-28th, Adam Kemp and I attended 2016 Mid-America Transportation Center (MATC) Scholars Program at UNL.
The program allowed us to hear from Native American scholars about their educational journey to achieve their doctorates and gave us the opportunity to network with other 开始研究生课程的学生.
我们学会了转大学、奖学金机会、 实习，以及在学校实现的策略.
We also took a tour of the UNL engineering college facilities, as well as Memorial
Stadium/Husker Heritage.
这是非常激励和鼓舞人心的.
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