Awarded Grants

The CRST Buffalo Authority Corporations, CRST Access to Native Meats Project, will provide access to local, Native producer sourced beef and buffalo meat products through the opening of a meat market storefront in Eagle Butte SD. The meat market storefront will create new value-added marketing opportunities for Native producers, strengthen our food sovereignty, give us more direct control over our meat food supply chain and provide our Tribal members with access to high quality locally sourced meat products.

This project will build capacity for CIBA Board members to develop and carry out virtual programming, increasing membership enrollment and membership participation. Additionally, this project will help develop the tools needed to cultivate relationships with agencies and landowners to provide more land access for basketweavers to gather.

This project will increase tribal environmental asset control on or near Native lands.

The ultimate purpose is to use our plan as outlined and put into effect as a starting place to rebuild a sustainable local economy by using ready local resources a and ready local market to bring quality protein to local people, and sustainable jobs to an area of traditionally high unemployment. We will retain and enhance the local beef industry by developing a sustainable market for their products while providing a healthy protein source for our tribal people and others in our area. We will utilize and grow a ready resource by using select beef that are hormone free.

The proposed project will extend an opportunity for tribal ranchers to receive premiums (above market value) for their cattle and contribute to their communities food security being an active contributor to an established local food network

Our goal is to create better access to healthy foods by introducing organic and non-GMO products into our native communities by introducing and retaining farm to table concepts including growing and raising vegetables, livestock utilizing local farmers and ranchers to procure supplies. Local farmers and ranchers can control available food supplies and we can help increase marketing of their products through retail and wholesale outlets and partners. By incorporating this process, we can help leverage the availability of fresh products and fair pricing of supplies based on customer demand. The concept is to retain farming and ranching operations.

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