The nonprofit North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NATIFS) will have a home to call its own following a building acquisition in Minneapolis.
The organization, founded by James Beard award-winning chef Sean Sherman, purchased the Seward Co-op Creamery building and plans to convert the space into NATIFS Wóyute Thipi, or “food building” in Dakota. Sherman founded NATIFS in 2017 to address economic and health crises affecting Native communities by re-establishing Native foodways and creating a new food system that generates wealth and improves health through food-related enterprises.
The new building will serve as a hub for several new NATIFS programs, as well as the organization’s headquarters. Sherman, NATIFS executive director and a major figure in Indigenous food, called Wóyute Thipi the organization’s “heart” going forward…