High Plains Reader is published weekly from its offices in downtown Fargo, ND. HPR features the best in local news, arts and entertainment.

Awesome NATIFS (North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems) fundraiser on April 2, in which 13 chefs joined together to do a wonderful and broad ranging sampler of Indigenous foods. Spoons full of wild rice mush with berry sauce and maple candied hazelnuts by Vernon Sav DeFoe; cornbread with wozapi served by the youth from Dream of Wild Health ; sweet grass braised venison with agave roasted butternut squash and chili prickly pear sauce and piki bread by Brian Yazzie ; bean and duck soup topped with duck-fat-fried chips by Åłłîn Mykł; sweet corn tamales with chili spiced honey by Erica Jo Vibar Sherwood; wasna (dried bison, corn, berries) by Rachel Smith; bison and elk sliders with choke cherry sauce by Mike Willard; sage and cedar braised rabbit with wild plum sauce over micro greens by Darius Willard; three sisters on a blue corn chip by Navajo tech student Ashley Lansing; kneel down bread with green chili sauce by her classmate Alayna Kinlecheenie; white corn mush with maple syrup and berries by Frank Haney Haney; walleye on wild rice and sunchoke and mushrooms topped with a fiddle head and ramp sauce by Tashia Hart; and a curried lentil dish by Kaesha Baloch a Pakistani tribal woman, in an effort to extend the reach to include international indigenous participants. Event emceed by Sean Sherman! An amazing meal and great company!