The Native Agriculture and Food Systems Scholarships encourage more Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian college students to enter agriculture and food systems fields so that they can better assist their communities with their food systems efforts.

First Nations will award 20 to 25 $1,000 to $1,500 scholarships for the 2023-2024 academic school year to Native college students majoring in agriculture and agriculture-related fields, including but not limited to, agribusiness management, agri-science technologies, agronomy, animal husbandry, aquaponics, environmental studies, fisheries and wildlife, food production and safety, food-related policy and legislation, food science and technology, horticulture, irrigation science, and sustainable agriculture or food systems.

Scholarship Award Timeline 

• Application Open: Monday, July 10, 2023
• Application Close: Thursday, August 10, 2023, 5 PM MT
• Applicant Notifications: September 25-29, 2023
• Scholars Awarded: November 2023

For more information, visit https://www.firstnations.org/rfps/native-agriculture-food-systems-scholarship-23-24/

Kolia Souza, MS Arch, MSCD, MPH (How to pronounce?)

Food Systems Equity & Advocacy Specialist | MSU Center for Regional Food Systems

480 Wilson Road | 303 Natural Resources Building | East Lansing, MI 48824

p: 517-353-3535 | c: 785-717-5924 | e: ksouza@msu.edu

Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples. In particular, the University resides on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. We recognize, support, and advocate for the sovereignty of Michigan’s twelve federally-recognized Indian nations, for historic Indigenous communities in Michigan, for Indigenous individuals and communities who live here now, and for those who were forcibly removed from their Homelands. The Center for Regional Food Systems affirms Indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold Michigan State University more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples. 

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