The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is providing technical and financial assistance for drought recovery. Livestock Forage Disaster...

We're glad to be growing our team and the services we offer across Indian Country. Let's welcome our newest staff members - Kristi...

Cheyenne Weston rejoins four-generations of cattle producers. After getting her degree and working in Rapid City for several years, Cheyenne Weston moved back to her home on the Rosebud Reservation in 2019. Last year, she decided it was time to get back into the family cattle business, making it a four-generation operation with her grandma, dad, and son. Although she had utilized Farm Service Agency (FSA) and other types of loans in the past, she says, "I really wanted to get

Bradyn Ward begins building his herd and his future. It’s 3:00pm, and Bradyn Ward (Cheyenne River Sioux) is getting off work at his full-time job in Eagle Butte, South Dakota. Instead of going home like most people, his passion is driving him an hour away to his second job – a beef cattle operation. After working on his stepdad’s cattle operation most of his life, Bradyn took the leap and began his own operation early this year. “It’s something I’ve always wanted to do. We’d

The news broke last week about Zach Ducheneaux's new appointment as the USDA's Administrator of the Farm Service Agency. Zach was...

January 4th, 2021 Greetings! I hope this letter finds you well and that you had a safe, healthy and happy holiday season! As we have now...

Akiptan is happy to announce the implementation of ProAg’s software. This program allows clients to create their own account on our...

Growing up I always heard: “Maybe next year’s prices will be better, maybe next year the weather will be better, maybe next year we can...

Recently, Akiptan has received some exciting news and we are happy to share this with you all. Akiptan is now a Certified Native CDFI....

\We have officially hit our one year anniversary of being open for business. What a great year it has been!

Lee McLean resides on the Colville Reservation in Washington state on his family’s ranch. He has been brought up around agriculture and came to us looking for some money to diversify his income. While his ranch has been in his family for generations, Lee was looking for his own way to make money off of the ranch in addition to ranching operations. He came to us with the idea of purchasing a cattle pot to do local loads and generate a little bit of extra cash with his truck th

Akiptan is the Lakota word for “working together, in a cooperative effort.” At Akiptan we are always asked about what we do and how we do...

Things have been very busy here at Akiptan the last month and we've been making some big changes. Our biggest news is that we hired our...

A huge part of agriculture is the production side, but an equally important part is the value added process as well. This success story dives into a promising business and their journey with Akiptan to grow immensely. Sakari Farms is owned and operated by Spring Alaska, a Native American woman who has found her true passion in agriculture. Spring focuses on planting and revitalizing pre-contact native foods and plants. She has a variety of vegetables and plants that she is ab

To kick off our first ever success story, I think it’s important to talk about Akiptan’s first loan to a young lady who inspired the idea of Akiptan. Tayla is a young Lakota from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation who was wanting to join her family in their ranching operation by starting her own herd. Tayla had the unique idea to purchase a milk cow to breed and to also raise several other bum calves. In order to grow her herd she would keep back a couple of the calves and sell

Akiptan is seeking a Loan Officer in order to broaden the impact we are making in Indian Country and to better serve our producers.

AKIPTAN Akiptan is a Native American Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that provides loans and technical assistance to...