First Foods

AICH is opening a new chapter, and we’re grateful to be part of it.

Join the GSC at the American Indian Community House Open House on May 9th as they welcome the community into their new space! This marks a new chapter for AICH after years of relocation, and creates a real opportunity to grow programs and partnerships, like ours with the Intertribal Pantry, and deepen community access to Native wellness and the arts.

Ahead of the opening, we sat down with Executive Director Patricia Tarrant to talk about what this moment means, how community work was shaped by her late mother, Victoria Yellow-Wolf Tarrant, has shaped how AICH is thinking about community input, and what comes next.

Take a few minutes to read the full interview then come through on May 9th to see the space for yourself.

🔗 Read the interview: https://bit.ly/aichinterview
📍Join us at the open house: Saturday, May 9 | 4–8 PM | 234 W 39th Street, 6th fl New York, NY 10018

Nipmuc foodways and lifeways shaped Sudbury long before the town had a name. This communal grinding stone is one of the few surviving examples of its kind in New England, a record of sustained labor that turned corn, grains, nuts, and beans into meal and flour, generation after generation.

In 2002, Sudbury considered creating a small “Grinding Stone Park” to protect and interpret the site, and although the proposal was ultimately withdrawn, care for the space has not disappeared. When we encounter living Indigenous heritage in public space, do we treat it as a backdrop or as a responsibility?

The grinding stone echoes through eternity!

Special thank you to for keeping local history alive.

With in full swing, we've also been invited to speak at this year’s Indigenous Food Policy Summit at alongside for two sessions centered on Indigenous foodways in urban communities for and of as keynote speaker:

🕖 7:15 PM – Rebuilding Indigenous Food Systems in Urban Diaspora Communities (Grinding Stone Collective)
🕢 7:45 PM – Lakota Foodways in Practice: Bapa Wasna & Frybread (Buffalo Jump NYC)

From rebuilding Indigenous food systems in diaspora spaces to learning Indigenous foodways, these sessions focus on what it takes to practice food sovereignty right now. If you’re in NYC, come through, learn, and be part of the conversation.

🗓 April 21
⏰ 6–9 PM
📍 Silberman School of Social Work: 2180 3rd Avenue, New York, NY 10035

RSVP using the link below or scan the QR code on the flyer
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indigenous-food-policy-summit-tickets-1984913301116