Resilience in Indigenous communities with food sovereignty

Food Sovereignty

100

Question: What is food sovereignty?

Food sovereignty is the “self-governing” of how you grow and harvest food. The ability to control your own food system.

200

Question: Other than food, what is the signifigance of food sovereignty?

Food sovereignty is a cultural practice to keep their culture alive throughout generations.

Terms

100

Question: What is Sovereignty?

Self-government of a state

200

Question: What is Survivance?

Active resistance to the oppression of culture to show one's active presence.

Relation towards food sovereignty

100

Question: How does culture survive?

Through practicing and teaching it for generations.

200

Question: How does sovereignty allow food sovereignty to be practiced?

Have control over what they do on their land, such as the food they grow.

OR

Make their own decisions with the food they grow and harvest.

Resilence

100

Question: What is the root of the discrimination against indigenous people?

The mistreating of the Indigenous people and culture.

Worldview

100

Question: Name one viewpoint of indigenous people. 

Rooted in earth 

OR

Built with community

200

Question: What does Anishinaabe legal scholar Aaron Mills call the settler's viewpoint?

“foundational presumption of earth-alienation” (Assumption that humans are superior to nature.)