Food sovereignty and scholarship meet at seeds of Native health conference: Interview with Karen Diver

Later this month, the Seeds of Native Health conference will convene in Prior Lake, Minnesota. The conference, a partnership between the University of Minnesota Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute in CFANS and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux community, brings together traditional knowledge leaders of Indian Country with leading contemporary scholarship on Native health issues, and presents both in a way that supports and enhances Tribal health sovereignty. 

Native News Online sat down with Karen Diver, citizen of Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and Senior Advisor to the President for Native American Affairs at the University of Minnesota, to talk about what the conference offers and why it's important for Indian Country.