Grace Ann Byrd from the Nisqually Tribe in WA describing her community’s efforts to raise and distribute food (while a buffalo looks on…). Later in the day, Dianne Amiotte-Seidel from the Intertribal Buffalo Council presented about programs to get buffalo meat into schools. She described how Lakota and other Plains people were confined to reservations in the mid-19th century, at which time Indigenous people began to eat much more beef Buffalo meat has fewer calories, more omega 3 and less omega 6 fatty acids. Dianne is working with tribes to try to incorporate more buffalo meat into school lunches. Challenges to these efforts include not having access to enough USDA certified slaughter plants, the higher cost of buffalo meat for schools, and having enough buffalo in tribal herds to feed schools. Photo by Elizabeth Hoover