What retail businesses should we include in food sovereignty work?
Who are the community members that have traditional knowledge related to food and the environment?
Who are partners outside of the community that we can include?
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
The impetus for much of the food sovereignty and local food work on the Menominee Indian Reservation stemmed from an important data source, “ County Health Rankings and Roadmaps ”. Information is split into two categories: health outcomes and health factors. Each category details statistical information for a variety of health measures. Menominee County, which shares nearly coterminous boundaries with the Menominee Indian Reservation, has been ranked as the least healthy county in the state of Wisconsin since the ranking’s inception. Our community uses this data as a source of strength and opportunity. This data source has been helpful in securing grants and creating action plans to address community health issues. The data also supported the creation of the local Community Engagement, a collaborative workgroup composed of service providers and community members, whose goal is to partner on health-related programming and projects. Data such as this is helpful for communities that want a snapshot of their health. With that, it is important to provide local community context related to the data, as the history, environment, and policies that are related to the statistics will vary by community.
References: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/
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