A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast

A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest CoastIn the dense rainforest of the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Somass River (cuumaas) brings sockeye salmon (miaat) into the Nuu chah nulth community of Tseshaht. Cuumaas and miaat are central to the sacred food practices that have been a crucial part of the Indigenous community's efforts to enact food sovereignty, decolonize their diet, and preserve their ancestral knowledge. In A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other, Charlotte Cot shares

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and Ojibwe-Dakota relations

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territoriality

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in search of a place for Eldon to die and be buried in the warrior way

38 page introduction to the language and life ways of the Ojibwe people