Legacy of Indigenous Food
Legacy - HNRS 1120
Instructor(s): Yolanda Teran
Course Description
The course offers an interdisciplinary exploration of Indigenous food. Collectively, we will dive deeper and study native seeds and products, ancestral agriculture, various agricultural seasons, ceremonies related to harvest or preparing to sow seeds, methods and mindsets for preparing healthy food and how to engage in sustainable lifestyles.Texts
I will provide the following reading articles:The study of Indigenous Peoples; Cultural meaning of Land; Dancing for the Apus: Andean Food; On the Importance to our Connection to Food; It is Time to Plant: The Real Green Revolution; Plants, Food, Medicine and Gardening; Selection of seeds, planting, Indigenous ceremonies, ancestral ways of keeping food, cooking and utensils; Indigenous food systems; Ceremonial foods; Slow Food Movement; The origin and cultural meaning of corn; Protecting the Culture and Genetics of Wild Rice; Indigenous Food Sovereignty in Canada;Food Sovereignty and Free, prior and informed consent;Re-indigenizing Our Bodies and Minds Through Native Foods; Resistance/Creation Culture and Seven Maize- Based Values.VIDEOS: Who Indigenous Peoples are; The last salmonRequirements
Two response papers
Final paper
Presentation
Participation
Discussion facilitator
Two out-of- class events
Short talks
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