Join us this May and June in learning and engaging with food system leaders from Fort Peck Tribes and Soul Fire Farm and celebrating our amazing local farmers through events that highlight efforts working to construct a more equitable food system!
Event Schedule
Event Details:
“Honoring the Buffalo Treaty at Fort Peck Tribes” film showing and Q&A with Roxann Smith and Scott Smoker of Fort Peck Tribes
Monday, May 16th from 5:30-7:30p at the Roxy Theater in Missoula, Theater #3
Roxann Smith
Buffalo Project Co-Investigator, Fort Peck Tribes
Roxann was born and raised on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation (NE Montana) by by her grandparents on their ranch. Roxann obtained her Masters of Education at Leslie College in Cambridge, MT. She began her career at Fort Peck Community College (FPCC) as a business and computer technology instructor, Teacher Education advisor, and Native American Studies instructor and has also worked at Aaaniii Nakoda College in South Dakota as an Education Specialist. She has served on the Tribal Executive Board at Fort Peck and currently works as director of FPCC’s Chante Project grant (Office of Indian Education). She and others are part of the “P’te” (female buffalo in Dakota language) Group consisting of elders and local community members, as well as colleagues from Montana State University, the World Wildlife Federation. Their Community Based Participatory Research has primarily been based on the return of the Buffalo Relations, and their healing impact it has on the community, land, and natural resources. The return of the buffalo has helped define food sovereignty which has emerged as a common theme with other tribes.
Scott Smoker
Filmmaker, Fort Peck Tribes
Scott Smoker is a filmmaker, artist, and designer that operates an independent production studio, Smoke Signal Studio. He is the filmmaker for “Honoring the Buffalo Treaty at Fort Peck Tribes.” He is a member of the Fort Peck Tribes (Dakota and Nakoda) and currently lives in his hometown of Poplar, Montana.
Excerpt from MSU April 17th Press release about the film: “In 2012, a small herd of buffalo from Yellowstone National Park were transferred to the Fort Peck Reservation in northeastern Montana, marking the first time genetically pure buffalo had roamed that region in over 100 years. The approximately 45-minute documentary describes how the transfer took place — from the near extinction of the buffalo to the agreements that brought them to the Fort Peck Reservation. It also highlights how Fort Peck is honoring and upholding the Buffalo Treaty, an agreement between various tribes seeking to celebrate their deep-seated relation to the buffalo and restore herds to the lands they used to roam.
The film is one outcome of a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant, “Collaborative Research and Strategic Planning for Fort Peck Inter-Tribal Buffalo Treaty Implementation,” that Fort Peck Community College and MSU recently completed. Roxann Smith, director of the Chanté Project at Fort Peck Community College, was the lead project investigator with MSU collaborators Brianna Routh, assistant professor in the Department of Health and Human Development and food and family specialist with MSU Extension; Michelle Grocke, assistant professor in the Department of Health and Human Development and health and wellness specialist with MSU Extension; and Elizabeth Bird, project development and grants specialist in the College of Education, Health and Human Development.” (full MSU press release here)
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED AND SEATS ARE LIMITED. $10 SUGGESTED DONATION PER PERSON AT THE EVENT. DONATIONS GO DIRECTLY TO THE FORT PECK TRIBES BUFFALO PROJECT.
IMPORTANT NOTE: PLEASE ONLY REGISTER IF YOU ARE SURE OF YOUR ATTENDANCE. WE WOULD LIKE A FULL THEATER FOR OUR FORT PECK TRIBES VISITOR SPEAKERS 🙂
Event Details:
“Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty” Keynote from Soul Fire Farm and Q&A with Naima Penniman
Thursday, May 26th from 5:30-7:30p at the Roxy Theater in Missoula, Theater #3
Q&A with Naima Penniman, Director of Education at Soul Fire Farm
Naima Penniman
Director of Education, Soul Fire Farm
Naima Penniman is a freedom-forging futurist rooted in her ancestors’ brilliance. She is a devotee of seeds, a soulful story teller, a multidimensional artist, movement builder, medicine grower, healer, and educator. Life-long lover and defender of the Earth, Naima dedicates her creativity and community-building skills to regenerate practices towards planetary interdependence. She serves as the Director of Education at SOUL FIRE FARM, where she equips a returning generation of Black, Brown and Indigenous farmers with the skills needed to reclaim leadership in the food system and chart dignified futures in relationship to land. She is the Co-Founder of WILDSEED, a BIPOC-led, land-based community focused on ecological collaboration, transformative justice, and intergenerational responsibility. Published in All We Can Save, We Are Each Other’s Harvest, Farming While Black, and Semillas, Naima is a visionary poet whose performances have inspired thousands of people and movements across the world through the groundbreaking work of CLIMBING POETREE. Originating member of the Black healers collective, HARRIET’S APOTHECARY, and founder of the Haitian resilience project, AYITI RESURRECT, Naima is devoted to cultivating collaborations that elevate the healing of our earth, our bodies, our communities, lineages and descendants.
[Naima identifies as queer, nonbinary, multiracial, Black, Haitian, and a child of the Earth.]
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED AND SEATS ARE LIMITED. FREE EVENT.
IMPORTANT NOTE: PLEASE ONLY REGISTER IF YOU ARE SURE OF YOUR ATTENDANCE. WE WOULD LIKE A FULL THEATER FOR OUR INCREDIBLE SPEAKER! 🙂
Event Details:
“Farm Fresh Pride Fest” PRIDE Weekend Kick-off Event!
Thursday, June 2nd from 4-7p at Imagine Nation Brewing in Missoula
Co-hosted with The LGBT+ Center
Live Music. Local Flower Farmers. Pride merch.
Two new beer launches that support CFAC and The LGBT+ Center:
Homegrown Farm Fresh Pale Ale & Never Too Many Rainbows
We will be awarding TWO LGBTQ+ farmers/farm workers with TWO special LGBTQ+ $500 Scholarships at the event!
(Apply or Nominate someone by clicking here!)
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED. WE CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU THERE!
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