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In 1966 the Keshena and Neopit 3rd and 6th graders' success on the Iowa Test for basic skills was compared to the rest of their school district (Joint School District No. 8). The school district had a composite grade for the 3rd and 6th graders of 82% and 60%, respectively. However, the two schools composed mostly of Indian students had ...
The Land O'Lakes co-op has grown through numerous acquisitions, and now has a large business in farm supply in addition to dairy: In 1978, Land O'Lakes got into the meatpacking business with the purchase of Spencer Beef. [6] It sold Spencer Beef in 1983 to Excel, now Cargill Meat Solutions. [7]
Over the next decade the government terminated 109 tribes and removed 2.5 million acres of trust land. [1] Related to the Indian Relocation Act, those who moved to cities forfeited their designated allotment, lessening the amount of land for reservations and making it further vulnerable to encroaching settler colonialism.
Ford, who became the first openly gay female CEO of a Fortune 500 company when she took over Land O’Lakes in 2018, is No. 26 on this year’s list of the Most Powerful Women in business.
At the helm of Land O’Lakes is Beth Ford, the first woman to lead the $19 billion Arden Hills, Minnesota, cooperative, which has 9,000 employees and 2,809 member-owners.
By the late 1970s, the number of participants in the Indian Placement Program was around 2,500. In response to the improvement of local schools developed on the reservations in preference to boarding schools, in the 1980s the Indian Placement Program limited participants to high-school students; the number of students dropped to 500 in 1990.
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In February 2020, the Land O'Lakes company removed the Native American woman as its logo on its butter and cheese products. [5] Ford is quoted as saying the removal of the "butter maiden" to the words "farmer owned" was more about what the farmer-owned co-op wanted to communicate rather than what it didn't, that the change did not come from ...