Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health

Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining HealthForeword by Winona Laduke. Centuries of colonization and other factors have disrupted indigenous communities' ability to control their own food systems. This volume explores the meaning and importance of food sovereignty for Native peoples in the United States, and asks whether and how it might be achieved and sustained. Unprecedented in its focus and scope, this collection addresses nearly every aspect of indigenous food sovereignty, from

Salmón focuses on an array of indigenous farmers who uphold traditional agricultural practices in the face of modern changes to food systems such as extensive industrialization and the genetic modification of food crops

Echo finds herself transported to another time and place—a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie—and back again

His book calls attention to Hopi philosophies of running that connected the runners to their villages

the response of academe and Native scholars to current issues and needs in Indian Country

"The animals of Turtle Island is a story exploring the traits of our sacred animal relatives through imagination and wonder

She tries to remember who she is and where she came from

Sacred Wilderness explores the lives of four women of different eras and backgrounds who come together to restore foundation to a mixed-up

Erdrich takes us on an illuminating tour through the terrain her ancestors have inhabited for centuries: the lakes and islands of southern Ontario

She left home to attend residential school and later moved to The Pas

this book—which accompanies an exhibition of the same title opening in August 2013 at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York—reveals how Anishinaabe (also known in the United States as Ojibwe or Chippewa) artists have expressed the deeply rooted spiritual and social dimensions of their relations with the Great Lakes region

These are the stories that make us who we are

each section focuses on a portion of the prose poem “Keep Going” and provides commentary on the text