Tag Archives: nutrition
Spotlight on PWNA’s Phoenix Distribution Center
Local news outlets 3TV AZ Family and ABC 15 recently visited the Phoenix distribution center to learn how PWNA is helping Native American communities.
Impacting Native Nutrition with Support of the Walmart Foundation
The support of the Walmart Foundation ensures that PWNA will continue to have an impact in remote Native American communities around the country.
Gardens as a Solution to Fight Food Insecurity
Partnership With Native Americans and its reservation partners are motivating and equipping tribal citizens with knowledge and healthy nutrition habits that will trickle down to next generations.
Access to Healthy Food on the Reservations
Partnership With Native Americans supports national nutrition and a return to traditional diets through gardens, healthy cooking classes, training on canning, preservation and a mobile unit for nutrition training in remote tribal communities.
Happy Holidays and Thank You!
PWNA’s staff, Board of Directors and partners are aligned around a mission that respects the self-determined goals and rights of tribes, as we listen and learn about the solutions that are working in their communities.
PWNA receives a Grant from the Walmart Foundation for Nutritional Impact in Native American Communities
“The Walmart Foundation is pleased to support the efforts of PWNA to improve the diets in Native communities and increase the knowledge and availability of healthy foods,†said Carol May, Program Manager for the Walmart Foundation.
A High Impact Food Partner & Project in Indian Country
Food sovereignty has been a major focus in sustainable community development across Indian country.
Native Video Series: Dakota Life / Native Gardens
Helen shows a video that talks about nutrition, obesity and diabetes related to Native American people.
America’s Most Vulnerable

Huskie is one of those people you wish everyone could meet. He lives in a contemporary Hogan in the Spider Rock community, through a maze of rutted out dirt ways several miles off the Canyon de Chelly road. Huskie is 80 years old. He has no transportation. He still cooks for himself but on the […]
Healthy Kids, Bringing Balance to Diabetes
How the life experiences of one Lakota woman can impact her reservation through developing a wellness curriculum for Head Start children in her area.