Food Sovereignty in Native America: Bringing Our Foods Back

Our Native foodways are among our most enduring tribal traditions.  Many of our delicious foods have been incorporated into cuisines around the world.  Here at home, we now face a variety of food issues in our communities that touch the areas of health, environmental science, and protection of heirloom foods and community knowledge. We need students with strong STEM power to help resolve these issues. Come see and touch examples of Native foods; learn about the challenges to keep our foods alive; and see how you can design a science or research project to reach solutions. You will also learn about the work of the Slow Foods Turtle Island Association, a new intertribal organization that focuses on the movement for access and preservation of foods for Native people of Canada, US, Mexico, and Hawaii.