Tribal administration, self-determination, culturally significant foods, FDPIR, Tribal SNAP authority, and Tribal shares of food access funding.
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“USDA food distribution agreements with Tribes and Tribal organizations should use existing federal Tribal self-determination contract models, with Tribal consent for USDA-specific changes and unclear terms read in favor of the Tribal entity.”
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“Foods bought by participating Tribes or Tribal organizations for FDPIR should have to be grown or produced in the United States.”
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“Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations contracts should use the main federal contract system already used for other Tribal self-determination programs instead of creating a separate system.”
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“Participating Tribes and Tribal organizations should be able to change FDPIR food choices, but those choices should not significantly raise or lower the total amount of food households receive compared with current FDPIR guide amounts.”
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“USDA should reserve 10 percent of yearly program money for Tribal governments, give every state a guaranteed base share after that, and divide the remaining money through an existing federal emergency food assistance formula.”
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“Replacement FDPIR foods chosen by participating Tribes or Tribal organizations should have to be at least as nutritious as the foods they replace, unless the replacement food has Tribal significance for that community.”
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“The Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Self-Governance should help USDA and interested tribes or tribal organizations understand and use the SNAP self-determination contract process.”
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“Tribes and Tribal organizations should be able to ask BIA's Office of Self-Governance for help understanding, negotiating, or carrying out reservation food distribution self-determination contracts.”
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“A Tribe should be able to choose to have a Tribal organization run the reservation food distribution program through a federal contract after the Tribe formally asks USDA to do so.”
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“Eligible Tribes and Tribal organizations should be able to ask USDA for agreements that let them buy FDPIR foods and manage related food program operations for their reservations.”
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“USDA should have to let a Tribal organization operate the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations when the Tribe formally asks for that arrangement.”
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“Qualifying Tribal organizations, not only Tribal governments, should be able to enter FDPIR food purchasing and operations agreements, after USDA consults Tribes on how that participation works.”
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“Tribes and tribal organizations should be able to make USDA contracts to plan, run, or manage SNAP food assistance functions for their own tribal members and communities.”
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