Farm Credit Canada provides ‘à la carte’ loan options to First Nations farmers unable to access conventional financing
Glacier FarmMedia – First Nations farmers have often been frozen out of agricultural lending. An all-Indigenous team at Farm Credit Canada is working to ensure they get the capital they need. “We’re taking Indigenous voices, we’re taking what you’re telling us, and we’re trying to implement that change here … to meet the needs of […] Read moreTag Archives First Nations farmers
Canada, First Nations agree on unmet agricultural claims
A handful of specific agricultural benefit claims between the federal government and nine First Nations were settled Oct. 18. Once fully settled, these claims – unmet promises in treaties 5, 6 and 10 territories throughout the Prairie provinces – will represent almost $1.4 billion in combined compensation to these First Nations. Through these treaties, Canada […] Read more
First Nations land vital to Sask. farm
A member of a First Nations band carries on the three-generation tradition of incorporating reserve land into family farm
About half the land Garan Rewerts farms is on First Nations land, carrying on a tradition passed down from his father and grandfather. Rewerts doesn’t know exactly when his paternal grandfather started farming land on First Nation reserves near their Cut Knife, Sask., farm, but believes it may have been in the 1980s. His father, […] Read more
Year in review: hearing hard truths about First Nations farmers
Digging into the history of oppression and neglect of Indigenous farmers on the Prairies a heartbreaking but necessary endeavour
“They said agriculture is going to be your new buffalo. That’s how you’re going to feed yourselves,” Robert Maytwayashing told me. By ‘they’ he meant the Canadian government, many years ago. Maytwayashing is a former cattle farmer from Lake Manitoba First Nation, and he’s worked in multiple advocacy, leadership and cultural training roles. Farming went […] Read more
