Native American farmers who grow specialty crops like blackberries, sweet potatoes and tomatillos can now apply for one-time bridge payments from the United States Department of Agriculture to assist ...

A new grant from the Native American Agriculture Fund will allow the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture to develop a new Purple Plow Challenge focused on Native American student interests ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has named the members of a council created in a 2010 settlement to ensure Native American farmers and ranchers have access to Department of ...

Prior to the arrival of the first European settlers early in the 17th Century, an estimated 50 million Native Americans tilled the land in the area that became the United States, gathered food in the ...

In the dense forests of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, archaeologists have made an astounding discovery: ancient farmlands that challenge everything we thought we knew about Native American agriculture.