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Regaining Food Sovereignty: Neyaab Nimamoomin Mewinzha Gaa-inajigeyang

admin — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:47:06 +0000

Regaining Food Sovereignty explores the state of food systems in some Northern Minnesota Native communities; examining the relationship between history, health, tradition, culture and food. By reclaiming and revitalizing knowledge and practices around tradition, local and healthy foods, many communities and Tribal Nations are working toward a new model of community health and well-being for [...]

The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food

admin — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:01:32 +0000

By MICHAEL MOSS New York Times On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled America’s largest food companies. Nestlé was in attendance, as were Kraft and Nabisco, General Mills and Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola [...]

Nationwide study casts a wide net over seafood fraud

admin — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:30:34 +0000

Mislabeled fish is flooding the marketplace and Americans may be swallowing it hook, line and sinker, according to a new study by an environmental activist group. A look at seafood sales across the country by ocean conservation group Oceana found that roughly one third of the time, seafood sold at U.S. grocery stores, seafood markets, [...]

Winnemem Wintu Chief says Frankenfish must be stopped

admin — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:57:50 +0000

Caleen Sisk, Chief and Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, said the Tribe strongly opposes the tentative approval of genetically engineered salmon by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). “Salmon is in our traditional stories, songs and dances,” said Sisk. “We must stay pure to exist in the ancient circle connecting our tribal customs [...]

The American Indian Lives Project: Volume 1 – Ojibwe Country

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:38:01 +0000

An hour-long documentary about American Indian people as told through a variety of Ojibwe perspectives. Shot during the summer of 2012 by a group comprised of students from the University of Southern California and Bemidji State University this video is the first installment in a forthcoming series of documentaries on contemporary American Indian lives.

Contaminated Culture

admin — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:32:27 +0000

Native People Struggle With Tainted Resources, Lost Identity By Brian Bienkowski, Environmental Health News October 30, 2012 For the Anishinaabe people at the southernmost tip of Lake Huron, cedar is not just a tree—it is sacred. Used in medicines and teas, the tree’s roots, bark and sap have been central to their physical, mental and [...]

Climate Change Threatens the Ojibwe’s Wild Rice Harvest

admin — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 23:39:55 +0000

By Mary Annette Pember November 2, 2012 From Indian Country Today It’s difficult to imagine a year without manoomin on the Bad River Reservation in northern Wisconsin. That wild rice—“food that grows on the water”—is so important to the people there that they call their annual summer pow wow the Bad River Manoomin celebration. But [...]

Sustainable Tuesdays

admin — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 15:19:15 +0000

In January 2012 IEN and partners from the Minnesota Green Corps and the RailRiver Folk School began a weekly educational forum on Sustainability in our region of northern Minnesota. Sustainable Tuesdays or in Ojibwe language Ganawendakamigaa endaso-maadanokii-giizhigak, has tackled a wide variety of interesting topics on Sustainability including bee keeping, gardening, seed exchange and many [...]

Update on the Indigenous Food Sovereignty Program

admin — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:40:28 +0000

Recently I heard someone say this simple and profound statement: “A nation cannot be sovereign if it cannot feed its people” More and more we are realizing that the industrialized, GMO driven, corporate controlled global food system is failing, it is not enough to feed us, body or soul. Local food systems based on principals [...]

Bemidji food co-op adds kitchen to boost local food producers

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:57:25 +0000

by Jennifer Vogel, Minnesota Public Radio Bemidji, Minn. — The kitchen at the back of the new and expanded Harmony Co-op is unfinished, with exposed wiring and the smell of fresh drywall. But soon it will sport industrial refrigerators and double convection ovens and the air will smell of chocolate tortes. Cheryl Larson Krystosek, a [...]