Description
This course will examine the ways in which Native American communities are addressing food related issues - from fighting rising rates of diabetes, heart disease, and obesity stemming from a drastically colonized diet - to preservation of tribal food cultures, to defending treaty-guaranteed hunting, fishing, and gathering rights. This class will also explore the disparate health conditions faced by Native communities, and the efforts made by many community groups to address these health problems through increasing access to traditional foods and medicines - whether by gardening, traditional agriculture, or a revival of hunting, fishing, and gathering traditions. We will also examine the ways in which Native food movements have converged and diverged from general American local food movements and the struggles they often face in protecting and renewing food ways.