Food Sovereignty

Features

• Native Recipes with Natural Ingredients

  Despite the chill still in the air—and the snows occasionally falling—spring will soon be calling. So get ready to head into the forests and plains to harvest.

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• Indian Country Fellows: Foundations pool resources to support TCU faculty dissertations, research

  Rachael Marchbanks

  Doctoral and scholarly research fellowship program allows scholars and students the chance to devote themselves to research and educational pursuits with remarkable results.

• Wild Food Summit: Anishinaabe relearning traditional gathering practices

  Barbara Ellen Sorensen

  Interest in the annual Wild Food Summit at White Earth Tribal and Community College keeps growing. “I believe that wilds foods are alive in a way that other foods are not,” says local Robert Shimek (Red Lake Band of Ojibwe).

• NWIC Traditional Foods and Medicine Programs

  Elise Krohn

  A sample of extension programs offered through Northwest Indian College campuses.

• Northwest Indian Treatment Center Honors Culture to Heal the Mind

  Elise Krohn

  Incorporating culture — as well as gardening and high-quality food — into treatment honors the healing process of patients at Norhtwest Indian Treatment Center.

• Partners Make History, Learn Lessons

  John Phillips

  Casual conversation leads to seven-year collaboration on diabetes-related research.

• Building on Tradition: Tribal colleges can lead the way to food sovereignty

  John Phillips

  Knowing that food sovereignty is an expression of tribal sovereignty, tribal college land grand educators learn from the past while banking on the future.

Editor's Essay

• Sharing the Harvest, Sustaining the Community

  Laura Paskus

  In this issue of Tribal College Journal, writers share stories of the foods that can heal and sustain the body, mind, and soul. They also show how many tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) are helping Native communities overcome challenges including obesity, diabetes, and drug or alcohol addiction while also restoring local food systems and nurturing local economies.

Voices

• Lessons in Education – and Beauty

  Jerry Worley

  Non-Native faculty and students travel seek cultural immersions at Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation and community college. “We leave the rigid academic paradigms of our linear non-Indigenous university and enter another universe…”

Profile

• Joy Farley: Making a Statement through Art

  Barbara Ellen Sorensen

  The path Joy Farley took to become museum registrar at IAIA’s Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, NM, included challenging internships and many travel experiences.

Talking Circle

• Unifying the College and the Community through Literature

  Ryan Winn

  Grant-funded literary discussion project brings students, college employees, and community members together to discuss shared challenges of preserving American Indian identity in a society of cultural assimilation.

Resource Guide

• 22-3 “Food Sovereignty” Resource Guide

  Michael Simpson

  I used to think that food was a rather benign subject. My experiences since moving to southern Arizona have shown how excited and protective people become when I teach about food as a political tool and promote Indigenous peoples reclaiming their heritage.

Research

• Indian Country Fellows: Foundations pool resources to support TCU faculty dissertations, research

  Rachael Marchbanks

  Doctoral and scholarly research fellowship program allows scholars and students the chance to devote themselves to research and educational pursuits with remarkable results.