AICHO to Host Indigenous Food and Art Market Saturday

AICHO will host its third Food and Art Market July 23 at Central Hillside Community Center's parking lot (12 E. 4th St., Duluth) from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Organizers will be showcasing 23 established and emerging American Indian and BIPOC food producers and artists. The cultural activity will be a class on making maple syrup taps led by Ron Willis. This is free and open to the public. The UMD Medical School American Indian students will host a fun educational activity tent on nutrition.

The goal for these markets is two fold. One is food access combined with food sovereignty: to bring fresh, healthy, locally grown and produced foods and vibrant culturally creative artwork to the Hillside community and Duluth. The other is to stimulate the Indigenous and BIPOC food and art economy in Duluth. Everyone should have access to fresh, healthy, affordable, and local foods. Therefore, AICHO will be accepting SNAP benefits and utilizing Market Bucks at all 8 markets with a match.

Entrepreneurs will be selling items such as garden grown produce, frozen meats, smoked white fish, wild rice, fermented foods, Indigenous teas, maple syrup, jams and jellies, herbs, honey, wild rice cupcakes, salves, CBD products, as well as artwork featuring fine art, prints, apparel, beadwork, jewelry and so much more.

Anamakaageg! Everyone is welcome. Open to the public. AICHO's Food & Art Markets are funded by the Statewide Health Improvement Partnership of Minnesota, Hunger Solutions, Essentia Health, Duluth LISC, McKnight Foundation, and Minnesota Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Division.

AICHO honors the resiliency of Native American people by strengthening communities and centering Indigenous values in all aspects of our work.

AICHO stands on the ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabeg, Dakota, Northern Cheyenne, and other tribes. Duluth, and the lands in Northeastern MN, were ceded in the 1854 Treaty. We honor the people, land, and natural resources. It will continue to work to build authentic relationships that support and advocate for tribal sovereignty of Native Nations in this territory and beyond.