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James Vallie, Apsáalooke/Anishinaabe, from left, Angela Bear Claw, Apsáalooke, and Jill Falcon Ramaker, Anishinaabe, plant Native seeds June 4, 2021, in the Indigenous gardens at Montana State University in Bozeman.
Jim Robbins
KFF Health News
BOZEMAN - Behind American Indian Hall on the Montana State University campus, ancient life is growing.
Six-foot-tall corn plants tower over large green squash and black-and-yellow sunflowers. Around the perimeter, stalks of sweetgrass grow.
The seeds for some of these plants grew for millennia in Native Americans' gardens along the upper Missouri River. It's one of several Native American ancestral gardens growing in the Bozeman area, totaling about an acre. Though small, the garden is part of a larger, multifaceted effort around the country to promote "food soverei...
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