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Registration & Scholarship App Now Open

Registration and scholarship applications are now for the 2026 Intertribal Harvest Gathering that will be held September 24-26 at the Ho-Chunk Nation in the Wisconsin Dells. Scholarships will be prioritized for 1) applications received prior to August 21, 2) food producers participating in the Great Lakes Intertribal Food Coalition’s Tribal Elder Food Box Program andContinue reading “Registration & Scholarship App Now Open”

Event Overview – Intertribal Harvest Gathering

Hosted on October 2-3, 2025 at the Ho-Chunk Nation in the Wisconsin Dells, the Intertribal Harvest Gathering featured hands-on workshops covering a range of topics on food harvesting, growing, cooking, and processing, as well as several sessions on traditional arts where participants were able to make their own clay pots, black ash baskets, corn huskContinue reading “Event Overview – Intertribal Harvest Gathering”

Great Lakes Intertribal Harvest Gathering – October 2-3, 2025

The Great Lakes Intertribal Harvest Gathering will be held October 2-3, 2025 at the Ho-Chunk Nation in the Wisconsin Dells. Ho-Chunk’s House of Wellness will be the primary location with lodging at Ho-Chunk’s Wisconsin Dells Resort and Casino (room block under “Intertribal Food Gathering”). The event is preceded by the Intertribal Agriculture Council’s Great LakesContinue reading “Great Lakes Intertribal Harvest Gathering – October 2-3, 2025”

Event Summary – 2019 Great Lakes Intertribal Food Summit @ Pokagon

Photos below by D.Kakkak A Summit Overview Building on the success of the 1st Intertribal Food Summit in Oneida, Wisconsin with a handful of producers in 2012, the Great Lakes Summit has since grown into a successful forum for discussing a wide range of issues facing the food sovereignty movement in the western hemisphere. TheContinue reading “Event Summary – 2019 Great Lakes Intertribal Food Summit @ Pokagon”

Tribal Cooperative Development and Value Added Workshop

Join the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center and the Intertribal Agriculture and partners, including the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance (NAFSA), for a Roundtable on Tribal Cooperative Development and Value Added Products in Madison, Wisconsin on Tuesday morning, June 5th.  In addition toContinue reading “Tribal Cooperative Development and Value Added Workshop”

Report: 2018 Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Food Summit

The Meskwaki Red Gardens as seen in the distant and the Meskwaki Bingo and Casino convention center to the right, played host to the 2018 Great Lakes Intertribal Food Summit, held May 9-13, at the Meskwaki Settlement near Tama, Iowa. Over five days a couple hundred participants, presenters, vendors and visitors spent time learning aboutContinue reading “Report: 2018 Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Food Summit”