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Traditional Foods of Vancouver Island First Nations
Thomas Childs Master's thesis presentation
Nuxalk Nation: Nutrition and Traditional Foods
List of journal references for published research with the Nuxalk Nation by Harriet Kuhnlein and colleagues, Centre for Indigenous Nutrition and Environment (CINE)(2 pages).
White Earth Land Recovery Project
Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment (CINE)
"Research centre based at McGill University in Montreal and created in response to a need expressed by Aboriginal Peoples for participatory research and education to address their concerns about the integrity of their traditional food systems.
In concert with Indigenous Peoples, CINE's mission is to undertake community-based research and education related to traditional food systems. The empirical knowledge of the environment inherent in Indigenous societies is incorporated into all its efforts."
Indigenous Diets and Chronic Disease Prevention
This site is being designed to share knowledge and engage community members, researchers and agencies, and do research about Indigenous diets and their connection to chronic disease prevention.
This site is an exploratory site, and an outcome of the Indigenous Diet Project inspired by the work of Dr. James Wortman (see Articles Page) and sponsored by the University of British Columbia Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, and the Network Environment for Aboriginal Health Research - BC and Western Arctic Region.
Pauquachin Hosts Pitcook and Celebratory Feast
Short photo essay with interpretive text (6 pages). Documents a visit by a
University of Victoria ethnoecology class to the Pauquachin territory for a pitcook and celebratory feast with the Pauquachin and Songhees Nations.
“Where our women used to get the food”: Cumulative effects and loss of ethnobotanical knowledge and practice: a case study from coastal British Columbia
Authors review a series of case examples of culturally valued food plants in British Columbia and identify a suite of interacting social and environmental factors that have resulted in decreased use of and dwindling cultural knowledge about these plants over the past 150 years.
By Nancy J. Turner and Katherine L. Turner (46 pages).
A Declaration of Seed Sovereignty: A Living Document for New Mexico
Local government resolution supporting seed sovereignty. Santa Fe County Board of Commissioners, Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA), Jan 2007
Indigenous Peoples Food Systems and Nutrition
Task force report (5 pages) by Harriet V. Kuhnlein, for the International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS), May 2005.
Exploring the Vision of Native Food Sovereignty: An Institutional Framework
First Nations Development Institute, 2006 (23 pages)
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