Heather Dawn Thompson

It's much more than just a catch phrase. But, for the new director of USDA's Office of Tribal Relations, Heather Dawn Thompson, what is "food sovereignty". "I think one really good example is heirloom seeds. A lot of native communities have heirlooms species of their squash and corn and etcetera that have been passed down  through the generations that they're looking forward to cul

Heather Dawn Thompson has been named the new head of the USDA's Office of Tribal Relations. "This is a restoration of that the office was originally created," she recently noted. "It was created and designed legislatively to be directly under the Secretary ...

On Monday, the USDA announced Heather Dawn Thompson's appointment as Director of the Office of Tribal Relations. Thompson is a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, a Harvard Law School graduate, and an expert in American Indian law, tribal sovereignty, and rural tribal economic development ...