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A Native-led program brings new food pantries to the Wind River Reservation
['Wyoming Public Radio']
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In the coming weeks, a new food program on the Wind River Reservation is opening four brick-and-mortar food pantries.
Odessa Oldham is a member of the Navajo Nation and grew up on the Wind River Reservation.
She said the Sweetgrass Food Lodge is a partnership between tribal organizations from both the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes, including the Wind River Food Sovereignty Project , the Wind River Development Fund , Eastern Shoshone Tribal Health and the Northern Arapaho Tribe .
Wind River Buffalo Initiative donated bison meat.
The program also delivers to the homes of elders and others who are homebound using two mobile food pantries.