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Background.

Intertribal Food Summits are part of a long history of intertribal gatherings and events. This current series started in 2012 with a Great Lakes Region Producer Summit at Oneida before turning into the Food Sovereignty Summit at Oneida, co-hosted by the Intertribal Agriculture Council, First Nations Development Institute, and the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin in 2013 and 2014.

The first “Great Lakes Intertribal Food Summit” was held in 2015, again at Oneida, before venturing to other locations and evolving its format with the April 2016 event at Gun Lake Pottawatomi with a four-day event that featured a menu prepared by a team of Native chefs, comprehensive hands-on workshops, and a concurrent youth summit.

Subsequent events were held at Red Lake in fall 2016, Gun Lake again in 2017, Meskwaki in 2018, and most recently Pokagon in 2019. Additionally, a Southwest Intertribal Food Summit was hosted in Taos, New Mexico in fall 2018.

The last formal “Intertribal Food Summit” was hosted as a virtual event in 2020. An inspired “Food Sovereignty Symposium & Festival was hosted in northern Michigan in 2022. A smaller Intertribal Harvest Gathering is planned for October 2-3, 2025 at the Ho-Chunk Nation in the Wisconsin Dells.