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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 revitalizing ancestral gardens and
traditional ways of hunting, gathering, and seed saving to the
difficult realities of racism, treaty abrogation, tribal
sociopolitical factionalism, and the entrenched beliefs that
processed foods are superior to traditional tribal fare. The
contributors include scholar-activists in the fields of
ethnobotany, history, anthropology, nutrition, insect ecology,
biology, marine environmentalism, and federal Indian law, as well
as indigenous seed savers and keepers, cooks, farmers,
spearfishers, and community activists. After identifying the
challenges involved in revitalizing and maintaining traditional
food systems, these writers offer advice and encouragement to those
concerned about tribal health, environmental destruction, loss of
species habitat, and governmental food control.
Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award
2017 Mohawk midwife Katsi Cook lives in Akwesasne, an indigenous
community in upstate New York that is downwind and downstream from
three Superfund sites. For years she witnessed elevated rates of
miscarriages, birth defects, and cancer in her town, ultimately
drawing connections between environmental contamination and these
maladies. When she brought her findings to environmental health
researchers, Cook sparked the United States' first large-scale
community-based participatory research project. In The River Is in
Us, author Elizabeth Hoover takes us deep into this remarkable
community that has partnered with scientists and developed
grassroots programs to fight the contamination of its lands and
reclaim its health and culture. Through in-depth research into
archives, newspapers, and public meetings, as well as numerous
interviews with community members and scientists, Hoover shows the
exact efforts taken by Akwesasne's massive research project and the
grassroots efforts to preserve the Native culture and lands. She
also documents how contaminants have altered tribal life, including
changes to the Mohawk fishing culture and the rise of diabetes in
Akwesasne. Featuring community members such as farmers, health-care
providers, area leaders, and environmental specialists, while
rigorously evaluating the efficacy of tribal efforts to preserve
its culture and protect its health, The River Is in Us offers
important lessons for improving environmental health research and
health care, plus detailed insights into the struggles and methods
of indigenous groups. This moving, uplifting book is an essential
read for anyone interested in Native Americans, social justice, and
the pollutants contaminating our food, water, and bodies.
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