TY - JOUR AU - Sutter, Virginia J. PY - 2018/07/18 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Entering into a Community-University Collaboration: Reflections from Blue Mountain Associates JF - Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development JA - J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev. VL - 8 IS - A SE - Food Dignity Introductions DO - 10.5304/jafscd.2018.08A.012 UR - https://foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/fd-bma SP - 13-15 AB - <p><em>First paragraphs:</em></p><p>If I can do something to help my people, and to help other people understand Indian people better and to appreciate our culture, then I have done what my father asked me to do in 1969 when he asked me to come home to the reservation and help my people in whatever way I could. In the last 50 or 60 years of my life, with the assistance of other people, I have been able to make some changes.</p><p>When my son, Jim Sutter, and I came back home to Wind River Indian Reservation, we knew our people needed health and human services, not just more clinical services. We thought we espe­cially needed to help people with food and nutri­tion. More generally, I thought that other people—researchers, academics, historians—need a better picture of what we Indians are all about in ways that neither glorify us nor demean us. Too often we are portrayed only on one side or the other....</p><p>See the <a title="press release archive " href="http://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=488966&amp;f=60033&amp;s=84565&amp;m=962913&amp;t=257c360ddc23fcec50d37942ed548ee4169a6c0d76d51e227fa886af9ecdf0c7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> for this article.</p> ER -