The American Indian Tea Company is a private company owned by Hesbrook Inc. and is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It produces a line of herbal teas, lemon honey, and pine nut coffee.

To practice the ancient art of making tea, Indian people gathered their herbs, wild flowers, and leaves from the meadows, woodlands, and natural grasslands. Owner Joseph Hesbrook is of the Lakota Tribe and he has built the American Indian Tea Company around that traditional herbal knowledge. Combining the traditional experience with modem research, the company blends teas and coffee that are natural and caffeine free. Its teas are high in vitamin C or deliver a good dose of antioxidants. And all can be sweetened with the company's own brand of lemon honey.

Native Harvest is owned by the White Earth Land Recovery Project, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. The mission of the organization is the recovery of the original land base of the White Earth Indian Reservation; preservation and restoration of traditional land stewardship; and strengthening of language, spiritual, and cultural heritage.

The White Earth Reservation, in northern Minnesota, was reserved for the Tribe as a whole under a 1867 treaty. By 1887 Federal law alienated the people from their traditional land tenure patterns by forcing the allotment of parcels of land to individual tribal members, a process that resulted in the land owners falling prey to foreign interests. Within three years lands were being taken through tax forfeiture or other unscrupulous and often illegal means. By 1920, 99% of the land was in non-Indian hands with half the people forced off the Reservation. Today, 90% of the Reservation is still held by non-Indians.

The White Earth Land Recovery Project was formed to engage in a long-term acquisition effort aimed at absentee landowners -- federal, state and county governments; timber companies; religious organizations; non-profit groups; and others. In the past three years, in addition to negotiations to receive donations of land, the organization has also purchased some 1,300 acres. It is still making payments on that purchase.

The organization also works actively to preserve the land and environment of the White Earth Reservation. Profits from Native Harvest are put into the White Earth Land Recovery Project and are used to fund its various activities.

Pueblo Harvest Foods is a line of food products by the San Juan Agricultural Cooperative. The Cooperative was formed by members of San Juan Pueblo located north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Its mission is to bring unused tribal farmlands back into production, to provide income to tribal members, and to preserve the community's agricultural traditions. In addition to producing a variety of traditional and high-profit specialty crops, the Cooperative sponsors projects aimed at youth development and cultural preservation.

With its Pueblo Harvest dried food line, the Cooperative adds value to its farm products, reaches a broader market, and creates more jobs for tribal members. It also hopes to introduce native pueblo cuisine to an expanded audience and to help its customers understand Pueblo culture, history and values regarding the need to protect Mother Earth for future generations.

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Tamaya Blue is the trademark of food products by the Blue Corn Products Division of Santa Ana Pueblo's Agricultural Enterprises. Tamaya is the name of the Pueblo in the people's Keres language. The Tamayame (the people of Tamaya) have lived at their present location north of Albuquerque, New Mexico since at least the early 1700's. When Spain entered the region, the Tamayame became known as the Pueblo of Santa Ana and later the region became known as New Mexico.

From the earliest days, the Santa Anas' survival has depended on the capacity to react to the various legal systems that were imposed on them and to the resulting changes in its land base and resources. Through it all, the Tamayame have established a way of life based on the annual agricultural seasons, the collection of indigenous resources, and trade with other peoples. The Tribe's agricultural development strategy is to support that heritage through developing markets for its agricultural products. It has expanded its vision of the marketplace from local to include national and international, expanded the marketplace from a five to ten mile to a five to ten thousand mile radius. In what almost seems a conflict of terms, the Tribe has focused its activities outside the Reservation to help preserve underlying values within its borders

Thunder Bird Coffee is a line of coffee from the Thunder Bird Coffee Shop & Trading Post on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation located near Southhampton, New York. The Shinnecocks have always lived on the east end of Long Island, New York State.

In 1995, the children and grandchildren of Chief Thunder Bird revived the Thunder Bird Trading Post as a family business and added its own line of 100% organic Thunder Bird Coffee.

Chief and Mrs. Thunder Bird along with Princess Nowedonah opened the Trading Post on the Shinnecock Reservation in 1946. Handmade buckskin and beadwork items were made and sold and traditional songs and dances were performed on the lawn of the Trading Post. From that history, grew the annual, and still continuing, Shinnecock Labor Day Pow Wow.

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