Credit: Janie Hipp, Chickasaw, shown here while serving as director of the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative at the University of Arkansas, was nominated March 15, 2021 by President Joe Biden to be general counsel for the Department of Agriculture. She is currently chief executive of the Native American Agriculture Fund. She is shown here with Charlie Vig (left), then-chairman of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota.
