The Indigenous Food Pyramid To Make Native America Healthy Again

Take a look at the Indigenous Food Pyramid.

It’s an Indigenized mirror to the inverted triangle United States agriculture and health leaders unveiled in January to show Americans food options for healthier diets while determining priorities for food policy and commerce until 2030.

The Indigenous Food Pyramid is an acrylic canvas painting from artist Joeseph Arnoux (Piikani/Sp’q’n’i), developed with the editorial staff at Cultivating Culture to present a view on the relationship between new federal nutritional policies and Indigenous Food Sovereignty practices.

The pyramid is a way to talk about reporting by journalists at Cultivating Culture that shows how tribal sovereignty and food are intertwined to resolve disjointed conflicts shaped by contradictions from generations of United States trust and treaty policies with Native Americans.