Decolonizing Our Diets By Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens

Mihesuah, Devon A.

doi:10.1353/aiq.2004.0084

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“…But beyond providing benefits to individual households, growing food can strengthen communities in a variety of ways that counter both settler colonialism's requirement of Indigenous erasure (Simpson & Bagelman, 2018) and racial capitalism's need to rework existing social relations into new socio-spatial arrangements supportive of capitalist accumulation (on this necessity, see Melamed, 2015). Many scholars therefore point to the important educational role that gardens can play both in (re)connecting people to Indigenous and non-European foodways and forging bonds of interdependence, between members of the community and between gardeners and the non-human world (Bang, 2016;Cidro, Adekunle, Peters, & Martens, 2015;Mihesuah, 2004;Thomas, 2017). Gardens also create "strong, yet different, connections to the land while living in a non-Aboriginal environment" (Wilson & Peters, 2005, p. 404).…”

Section: Sowing Resistance and Resurgencementioning

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Urban agriculture, racial capitalism, and resistance in the settler‐colonial city

McClintock

2018

Geography Compass

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Recent scholarship on urban agriculture (UA)—the production of food in cities—argues that UA can both undergird and resist capitalist accumulation, albeit often at different spatio‐temporal scales. Scholarship that explicitly examines how UA, capitalist development, and racial difference work through one another, however, is less extensive. In this review, I propose that the lens of racial capitalism can elucidate UA's contradictory motivations and outcomes. As an analytical framework, racial capitalism considers how distinct forms of colonization, settler colonialism, and White supremacy function relationally as part of a unified system of capitalist accumulation built on the exploitation of racialized human and spatial difference. By focusing on UA's contributions to racial Othering, the racialization of space, and dispossession, on the one hand, and on struggles of resistance and self‐determination, on the other, this review attempts to sheds new light on the dialectical, “both/and” nature of UA, while also addressing recent calls to consider how settler colonial logics persist in the contemporary North American city.

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Section: Sowing Resistance and Resurgencementioning

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Urban agriculture, racial capitalism, and resistance in the settler‐colonial city

McClintock

2018

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“…For example, Native American scholars contest the claim that western medicine improved the health of Native people, arguing that western medicine too often leads Native people to “neglect the social, the people, and their cultural models and their mental states when we clinically study foods” (Salmon :80; Wilson ). This exacerbated the impacts of such colonizing acts as provisioning of tribes with US commodities, the industrialization of food, and the contamination of traditional food sources (Cozzo ; Mihesuah ; Norgaard et al ). Thus, institutionalizing nutritional knowledge further institutionalized the marginalization of women, the poor, the colonized, and conquered.…”

Section: “Original” and “Moralist” Conceptions Of Food Justicementioning

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Decolonizing Food Justice: Naming, Resisting, and Researching Colonizing Forces in the Movement

2015

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Over the past 15 years social movements for community food security, food sovereignty, and food justice have organized to address the failures of the multinational, industrial food system to fairly and equitably distribute healthy, affordable, culturally appropriate real food. At the same time, these social movements, and research about them, re-inscribe white, patriarchal systems of power and privilege. We argue that in order to correct this pattern we must relocate our social movement goals and practices within a decolonizing and feminist leadership framework. This framework challenges movement leadership and scholarship by white people who uncritically assume a natural order of leadership based on academic achievement. We analyze critical points in our collaboration over the last four years using these frameworks. Doing so highlights the challenges and possibilities for a more inclusive food justice movement and more just scholarship.

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“…By the 1950s, the diet of Native American populations was shifting away from traditional diets high in fresh fruits, vegetables, and wild plants and toward commercially prepared foods such as high‐fat meats, processed starches, and sweetened beverages (Conti ). This issue has been compounded by a high reliance on the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), which provides inexpensive commodities high in sugar, saturated and trans fats, and low in protein and unsaturated fats (Mihesuah ; Morell and Enig ). Surveys of Native American youth during the 1960s and 1970s found that a significant number of Native American children were receiving substandard nutrition (Owen et al.…”

Section: Dietmentioning

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Tuberculosis morbidity at Haskell Institute, a Native American Youth Boarding School 1910–1940:^∧

Wilbur

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Drisko

2016

Annals of Anthropol Pract

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Objective To determine historical disparities in tuberculosis morbidity between Native American youth attending off‐reservation government boarding schools and the non‐Native American population.∧ Findings are placed within the context of documented health disparities in Native American populations, with implications for modern health. Methods Analysis performed on available epidemiologic data from Haskell Institute in Kansas and corresponding statewide data for points between the years 1910–1940.∧ Data on tuberculosis prevalence and enrollment for Haskell were collected via historical records. Tuberculosis morbidity rates were calculated, along with comparative tuberculosis morbidity for the state of Kansas. Results Tuberculosis rates at Haskell Institute were significantly (p<0.0001) higher than for the state of Kansas from 1910 to 1940.∧ Conclusion Tuberculosis morbidity among Native American boarding school youth in the early 20th century was higher than among the general public. Entrenched social and historical determinants resulted in increased susceptibility to tuberculosis; these factors continue to be associated with cause increased rates of tuberculosis among Native Americans today.

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Decolonizing Our Diets By Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens

Cited by 24 publications

References 10 publications

Urban agriculture, racial capitalism, and resistance in the settler‐colonial city

Urban agriculture, racial capitalism, and resistance in the settler‐colonial city

Decolonizing Food Justice: Naming, Resisting, and Researching Colonizing Forces in the Movement

Tuberculosis morbidity at Haskell Institute, a Native American Youth Boarding School 1910–1940:^∧

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Decolonizing Our Diets By Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens

Cited by 24 publications

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Urban agriculture, racial capitalism, and resistance in the settler‐colonial city

Urban agriculture, racial capitalism, and resistance in the settler‐colonial city

Decolonizing Food Justice: Naming, Resisting, and Researching Colonizing Forces in the Movement

Tuberculosis morbidity at Haskell Institute, a Native American Youth Boarding School 1910–1940:∧

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