CRST Buffalo Authority awarded federal contracts to provide bison meat to two other S.D. reservations

  • Through a new pilot project with the USDA, the CRST Buffalo Authority Corp. has been awarded two six month contracts to provide bison meat from its roughly 2,000 head herd to the Rosebud and Sisseton-Wahpeton reservations on a monthly basis. Photo by Jon Flatland
    Through a new pilot project with the USDA, the CRST Buffalo Authority Corp. has been awarded two six month contracts to provide bison meat from its roughly 2,000 head herd to the Rosebud and Sisseton-Wahpeton reservations on a monthly basis. Photo by Jon Flatland
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    By Jon Flatland

    A new, interagency pilot project aimed at offering localized ground bison meat for tribal communities through the USDA’s Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations is already paying off for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.

    The project - involving the Cheyenne River, Standing Rock, Lower Brule and Rosebud Sioux tribes - will look at changes to how USDA purchases bison for distrib…