Western food was unhealthy and costly. So they turned back to bison and mushrooms

The Siau Nation in South Dakota is building community and climate resilience through traditional foods

On a Wednesday summer evening on the Rosebud Reservation, members of the Siau Nation arrange 12 tables to form a U in the parking lot of a South Dakota Boys & Girls Club. The tables at the Siau Harvest Market are laden with homemade foods for sale: tortillas, cooked beans, pickles and fresh-squeezed lemonade.

The market is one of many ways the non-profit increases access to traditional and healthful foods that also happen to come with a low climate impact. The Lakota, of which Siau is one of seven nations, were traditionally hunters and gatherers, but today, the Siau Co non-profit is building on both new and old traditions to fulfill its mission.