On this episode…

Nick Hernandez, director of the Food Sovereignty Initiative and member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, shares his personal definition of food sovereignty and how it can be as simple as returning to the way that Native people lived, pre-colonialism. In many cases, this fancy term “food sovereignty” is just, as Nick puts it “what we did.”

Tune in to hear about…

• The incredible changes the Thunder Valley Community Development Corp. has made in its 10 years of development work
• How they are empowering Lakota youth to be involved in the food that comes to their plates.
• How the Food Sovereignty Initiative is using chickens to regenerate both a food system and its soil (and why Nick and his colleagues fondly call them “Buffalo Chickens”!)
• The way health disparities can be traced back to the astounding percentage of food that is shipped to, rather than grown on, the Reservation