White text on a maroon background with stylized beadwork of rabbits, fish, and corn: "When we understand the relationships between food, the land, and culture, we recognize that food is fundamental to our well-being. Food is medicine. Yet, Indigenous knowledge and foods are all too often missing from health care settings across Canada. It's time for that to change." - Nourish

Nourish invites #healthcare organizations to commit to decolonizing menus & operations by joining the #FoodIsOurMedicine learning journey October 2025 to June 2026. Registration closes Oct. 24.

👉 nourishleadership.ca/programs/foo...

#IndigenousFoodways #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #Nutrition #Food

Why Traditional Foods Matter: A Conversation With Qwustenuxun | Skipper Otto Join renowned Indigenous Chef and Knowledge Keeper Jared Qwustenuxun Williams as he shares stories and teachings from the land and sea.

Join Chef and Knowledge Keeper Jared @qwustenuxun.bsky.social Williams as he shares stories from his grandmother’s smokehouse, lessons from Elders, and teachings from the land and sea. 🐟

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#IndigenousFoodways #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #FoodIsOurMedicine

Who has inspired your scholarship?

#Food #FoodScholarship #FoodStudies #FoodWays #FoodSovereignty #FoodSystems #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #Geography #EnvironmentalStudies #Sustainability

Join the next session in our Food Sovereignty Speaker Series on Monday, 9/25 at 12:30 pm to hear from Linda and Luke Black Elk.

Visit our website for more information on how to register, and to watch past sessions.

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#foodsovereignty #indigenousfoodsovereignty

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Indigenous Peoples' Right to Self-Determination: A Pathway for Food Security and Sovereignty. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about... This International Center for MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma is held in recognition of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples which is observed annually on August 9 and its 2025 the...

Learn about the connection between food, culture, health, and healing. This webinar will explore Indigenous food systems, culturally-rooted healing, & how #IndigenousFoodways align with nutrition and public health goals.

#IndigenousFoodSovereignty @drlesliekorn.com

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Access and affordability of "healthy" foods in northern Manitoba? The need for Indigenous food sovereignty | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

Access and affordability of "healthy" foods in northern Manitoba? The need for Indigenous food sovereignty

Mengistu Assefa Wendimu
Annette Aurélie Desmarais
Tabitha Robin Martens

#Manitoba #FoodSovereignty #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #FirstNations

First Nations farmers are growing opportunity and better food for all Expanding opportunities for First Nations farmers would be an economic boon for the entire country

“[Indigenous people] are everywhere you need food. And we’re young and we’re unemployed and we want to do this in the hundreds of thousands,” Mr. Beaton says. “This is part of our culture, part of our spirit, part of our ancestry.” 🌱

#IndigenousFoodSovereignty #IndigenousFoodways

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Traditional foods chef from Cowichan shows off smokehouse to provincial officials Indigenous Food Security and Sovereignty Program provided $80,000 grant

Addressing regulatory barriers is key to enabling #IndigenousFoodways. 🐟

"If we can navigate regulations here & create a way ahead then our youth can learn this skill & create a value added seafood product." - @qwustenuxun.bsky.social

#IndigenousFoodSovereignty #FoodSystems

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A white report cover with red, yellow, and teal lines intersecting to form a star, in front of a light beige circle. The title says 'Gifts from our Relations: Indigenous Original Foods Guide.' Report by the National Indigenous Diabetes Association.

By the National Indigenous Diabetes Association, 'Gifts from our Relations' honours 18 foods important to Indigenous communities throughout Turtle Island. 🍓🐢

"Eating our ancestral food helps to keep our culture alive."

👉 shorturl.at/7kaoj

#IndigenousFoodways #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #Nutrition

Honoured to visit Jared Qwustenuxun Williams’ incredible smokehouse project with my colleague MLA Debra Toporowski.
Jared is blending traditional food practices with modern tools to nourish bodies, spirits & communities. From feeding Elders and patients to mentoring youth.
#IndigenousFoodSovereignty

Pow Wow Nutrition Subsidy poster.

Chippewas of the Thames launch a #PowWow #Nutrition Subsidy: “All of the traditional foods that we have eaten, because they were from the land and in their whole form, were pretty healthy.” 🫘🍓🐟

#IndigenousFoodways #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #PowWowNutrition #Food #WholeFoods

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“Indigenous foods—which tend to be whole and healthy with an emphasis on lean proteins and fruits and vegetables—are right in line with what we all need to eat to reduce health challenges like heart disease and diabetes.” 🙌 🌽🫘🐟@thesiouxchef.bsky.social #IndigenousFoodways #IndigenousFoodSovereignty

Learn more about Kathy Loon and her work at Meno Ya Win Health Centre in the Nourish short documentary, Michim. 🎬

#IndigenousHealth #IndigenousFoodways #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #Michim

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Food Costs and Climate Change – Impact Stories from Remote BC Communities. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webina... TBA

Join the UBC Learning Circle on May 22 for a webinar sharing experiences of food costs, food access, & the impacts of climate change from people living in remote Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in BC.

Register 👉 shorturl.at/i42mR

#foodsecurity #PlanetaryHealth #IndigenousFoodSovereignty

Montana State University’s Buffalo Nations Food System Initiative receives $500K from the Mellon Foundation to support Indigenous food sovereignty efforts in the Northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #BuffaloNations #NativeVoices www.buffalosfire.com/the-daily-sp...

Camas & salmon berry are among the plants being nurtured at a new nursery on Quw'utsun (Cowichan) territory. The project emphasizes culturally significant foods & plants, contributing to #foodsecurity. @qwustenuxun.bsky.social

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#IndigenousFoodSovereignty #IndigenousFoodWays

"How do we weave in the knowledge and traditions of western and Indigenous approaches as we build forward? What are you seeing? What do you want to see?" - @hayleylapalme.bsky.social #IndigenousFoodSovereignty

The MKO Harvester Program presents the “Revitalizing our Roots” Food & Medicine Gathering to celebrate, preserve, and revitalize Indigenous knowledge on traditional foods and medicines.

📍 Winnipeg (April 29-May 1): shorturl.at/2y86B

#IndigenousFoodways #IndigenousFoodSovereignty

I found some cool Indigenous Food resources I wanted to share.

Day cares, and child care places, have all plastic versions of western foods. I always wondered why we don't represent our foods. Well now you can with all these cool toys.

#IndigenousFoodSovereignty

Lemon and other citrus fruit on a white and blue surface.

Exploring activist perspectives on Indigenous-settler solidarity in Toronto’s food sovereignty movement

Taliya Seidman-Wright
Sarah Rotz

#Activism #FoodMovements #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #SettlerColonialism #SettlerIndigenousSolidarity

canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

Lemon and other citrus fruit on a white and blue surface.

From Palestine to Turtle Island
Food as a weapon of colonialism and tool of liberation

Rotz et al.

#Imperialism #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #Palestine #Resistance #SettlerColonialism #TurtleIsland #Gaza #Canada

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On behalf of the Indigenous Foods Project with the new Cowichan District Hospital I would like to invite you to attend an in person gathering at the Si'em' Lelum Gymnasium, 5574 River Road in Duncan, on Sunday February 2nd 2025.

#IndigenousFoodSovereignty

Lemon and other citrus fruit on a white and blue surface.

Exploring activist perspectives on Indigenous-settler solidarity in Toronto’s food sovereignty movement

Taliya Seidman-Wright
Sarah Rotz

#Activism #FoodMovements #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #SettlerColonialism #SettlerIndigenousSolidarity

canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

#Imperialism #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #Palestine #Resistance #SettlerColonialism #TurtleIsland #Gaza #Canada

This was a good day,

It's not every day that I get to cook for 250+ people using traditional technology.

#WeAreTheNewAncestors #IndigenousForestPunk

#salishfire #cheflife #rezlife #indigenousfoodsovereignty #salmon

I honor these seeds knowing their strength will nourish my body. I stand in resistance with them knowing that I am here for a reason. Mvto!
#foodsovereignty #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #IndigenousDietitian #thanksgiving #thankstaking

Statistics show major disparities for Indigenous Peoples in Canada living off-reserve. Explore our post and website to learn more.

➡️abo-peoples.org

#IndigenousRights #Indigenouscommunities #Indigenousfoodsovereignty #HousingCrisis