Environmental for Food Justice

Illustration 1. Winter hunting lodge All images courtesy of Choctaw Nation Moderator’s Note: In our continuing series on indigenous food and seed sovereignty we present a contribution drawn from a larger series by the Choctaw Nation on indigenous foods and foodways. We thank our colleague Brit Reed for bringing this work to our attention. The original can be found at Choctaw Nation . One lesson I draw from this wisdom is the resilience built into foodways that are adapted to seasonal and other ecological changes, including those introduced by contact and exchanges with settler colonial forces. Deep food rooted in land, water, and vibrant matter INDIGENOUS ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT Choctaw Nation | Durant, OK | January 20, 2016 [this post] Choctaw society developed out of a long and intimate relationship with the plants, animals, soil, and water of our homeland in the southeast. Through this relationship, Choctaw ancestors engineered a food way that minimized their risk of going hungry by re...

Illustration by Julie Notarianni | Courtesy of Yes Magazine . Moderator’s Note: Our guest blog today is by a scientist who long has worked with New Mexico and Colorado acequia farmers to protect the native landrace chile peppers of the Rio Arriba (Upper Rio Grande) watershed. For many years, she worked closely with the late much beloved Estevan Arellano; Sandoval has a farm in Dixon not far from the Arellano family’s permaculture operation in Embudo Cañon. I am delighted that Ms. Sandoval has agreed to will share old and new posts with followers and readers of this blog as a featured guest contributor. The work that Ms. Sandoval has engaged in over the past two decades focuses on unifying scientific methodologies with local knowledge and practices followed by acequia farmers, plant breeders, and seed savers. Her work is thus a vital part of the indomitable seed sovereignty movement, which works from the grassroots up to protect, defend, and preserve farmer control over our heritage se...