Session: : Traditional Ecological Knowledge - Indigenous Ecologists Share Their Work in the Intersection of Indigenous and Western Understandings of the Natural World
INS 21-5 - Indigenous food sovereignty: A tribal college's heartwork to heal and strengthen our communities and relationships
Director of Food Sovereignty Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College New Town, North Dakota, United States
This talk will highlight the vision, challenges, and some of the achievements in food sovereignty of one tribal college in North Dakota. Mending our traditional food systems that suffered numerous disruptions over the past couple hundred years has been a slow process which has included obstacles and heartbreak, but also beautiful growth, resurgence, and hope.