Food Sovereignty in Indian Country - Farm to Fork Wyoming
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- In this age of industrial diets, Food Sovereignty is a growing concept around the world. But there are few for whom food sovereignty has greater significance than the indigenous people of the Americas. In this Episode, voices rise from the Wind River Reservation as Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho people are joined by other tribes to tell their histories and the spiritual and cultural importance of ancestral foods. It’s about the preservation of health, language, culture and balance in the world.
We are all suffering from the standard American diet. All of us. we all come from a hunter gatherer tribal structure. White, black, asian, all of us. No one should be eating anything other than meat , vegetables, fruit, and nuts.
Thank you very much for the nice report. I hope the people there live happily.
I really do hope that the people living on reservations can turn this trend around. I always find these conversations interesting when history is discussed, especially when there is cherry picking. I’m not arguing with the narrative here. Eradication was the goal of the US government. It can’t be denied and the native population of the American continents suffered horrible atrocities time and time again in the name of conquest and colonization. To make matters worse, tribes were rounded up and given poor land to live on, often times with other tribes that were considered enemies to one another. However, to pretend that this was some sort of isolated utopia prior to contact would be far from accurate. The use of the Iroquois confederacy as an example here was a misstep to back up that point. They did not create and become the most powerful entity in North America thru democracy, peace, and diplomacy. They eradicated, assimilated, and absorbed their neighbors on a regular basis prior to contact. The confederacy was also one of the first to ally themselves with the British. The same thing happened all over the Americas prior to contact.
The gov't. needs to get out of peoples lives and let farmers and people work their land as they see fit. Food should come from your local communities instead of shipping the best of the crops to China. Smoke the peace pipe and work together, are all will die. Have you had any record breaking blizzards yet? The are coming. Weather control. Have you had any good weather in the last few years? It's getting worse.
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I'm ignorant on this issue, but why doesn't the tribe, reservation, community, etc. grow giant gardens to help feed themselves instead of taking the commodity food that's not healthy? Give them wild game meat instead of canned stew, or we can just keep apologizing for misdeeds of the past like that SJW eaten up by guilt. SMDH
Sorry if this message is recieved by you a little late. The biggest problem they have is that in most indian reservations there is no or very limited private land. All of it is communal according to tradition. This has led to there being no incentive to imporve your land. It is much more lucrative to get into tribal politics. That is one of the big problems they have IMHO. Indian communities that have private land ownership are doning far better. I think John Stossel did a bit on this in the past.
Until the native people decide they are only victims of their own ancestors wars, they will not prosper in the NOW! They need to get out of that victim mentality and poverty consciousness to prosper!
Idle hands and idle minds stagnate. I am sure they could get a team of good horses and work what land they have and build the soil on the Reservation to farm and grow hay for livestock. Make the sweet and buy buffalo from within the council of tribes. Hunt buffalo in Montana learn to live not just survive! You teach poverty instead of history!!! It has been this way for generations! Teach them the richness of heart, that a tribe working together can do. Build elk farms, cattle ranching and buffalo raising. Learn how to drive a team of horses. Your teanage girls and boys can hitch a team and educate them. Surely there are retired ranchers who can teach you horsemanship and livestock. Where a cottonwood will grow, a Apple tree and other fruit trees will grow.
Can your own foods! You only need to know how to boil water to fill your pantrys. There is pride in eating your own foods. Rise from the ashes of destroyed lives and become self sustaining people. If idle hands have no responsibility, you will lose your youth to demon alchohol and drugs and children unable to learn. You will not recover if you cannot evolve into the self sufficient tribe that your relations left for you.