RAPID CITY (AP) - A Rapid City bison cooperative has received a roughly $99,000 federal grant to study how to get buffalo and other traditional foods on lunch tables in American Indian schools.
The Rapid City Journal reports the Intertribal Bison Cooperative said Tuesday it was awarded the grant from the U.S. Agriculture Department.
Executive Director Jim Stone says the group will use the money to find ways for students in South Dakota reservation schools to eat more traditional and healthier foods. He says school lunch programs are sometimes students' primary source of nutrition but school produce offerings don't always have much variety.
