Enhancing Food Sovereignty: A Five-year Collaborative Tribal-University Research and Extension Project in California and Oregon

Sowerwine, Jennifer; Sarna‐Wojcicki, Daniel; Mucioki, Megan; Hillman, Lisa; Lake, Frank K.; Friedman, Edith

doi:10.5304/jafscd.2019.09b.013

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“…Findings from this study also emphasize the importance of sustaining relationships between kānaka (people, human beings), 'āina, and akua as a way of fostering health of Hawaiians (Chun, 2008;Kūkulu Kumuhana Planning Committee, 2017;McGregor et al, 2003). As demonstrated in Table 2, these findings align with the existing literature that focus on Hawaiian health in addition to food security and food sovereignty in Hawai'i and in other Indigenous communities (Beebe et al, 2020;Delormier et al, 2017;Ho-Lastimosa et al, 2019;Kuhnlein, 2012;Sowerwine et al, 2019). The right to be well and have access to adequate and healthful foods that is respectful of one's culture is a fundamental human right.…”

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The study of life and food systems for Native Hawaiians based on their environment

Antonio

Makua

Keaulana

et al. 2021

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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Health and well-being are a function of familial relationships between Native Hawaiians and their land. As a result of settler colonialism, Native Hawaiians face systemic and social barriers, which impede their relationship to land, with implications of adverse health outcomes. This qualitative study explores changes in health among Native Hawaiians, with a specific focus on food systems and the environment. Community-engaged research approaches were utilized to recruit 12 Hawaiian adults. The major themes include the following: (1) health as holistic and a harmonious balance, (2) nutrition transition and current connections to ‘āina (land extending from the mountain to the sea; that which feeds or nourishes), and (3) food sovereignty and community solutions to uplift the Lāhui (Nation of Hawai‘i). Consideration of cultural values, community strengths, and traditional lifestyle practices may address health inequities and changes in food systems related to health that stem from colonization, determinants of health, and environmental changes.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 77%

The study of life and food systems for Native Hawaiians based on their environment

Antonio

Makua

Keaulana

et al. 2021

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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“…The key to defining the locations, spatial scale, timing, rate of treatment, and methods used is the desired forestnonforest conditions that result, their degree of adaptation to changing climate and fire regime conditions, and the degree of comfort with spatial uncertainty of outcomes. Moreover, coupling Indigenous cultural burning, fuel reduction, and prescribed fire treatments furthers Indigenous fire stewardship and food security (Sowerwine et al 2019a(Sowerwine et al , 2019b, and recovers opportunities for tribal engagement in resource management within their ancestral territories Lake 2018, Long et al 2020).…”

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Wildfire and climate change adaptation of western North American forests: a case for intentional management

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Prichard

Hagmann

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Forest landscapes across western North America (wNA) have experienced extensive changes over the last two centuries, while climatic warming has become a global reality over the last 4 decades. Resulting interactions between historical increases in forested area and density and recent rapid warming, increasing insect mortality, and wildfire burned areas, are now leading to substantial abrupt landscape alterations. These outcomes are forcing forest planners and managers to identify strategies that can modify future outcomes that are ecologically and/or socially undesirable. Past forest management, including widespread harvest of fire-and climate-tolerant large old trees and old forests, fire exclusion (both Indigenous and lightning ignitions), and highly effective wildfire suppression have contributed to the current state of wNA forests. These practices were successful at meeting short-term demands, but they match poorly to modern realities. Hagmann et al. (in press) review a century of observations and multi-scale, multi-proxy research evidence that details widespread changes in forested landscapes and wildfire regimes since the influx of European colonists. Over the preceding 10 millennia, large areas of wNA were already settled and proactively managed with intentional burning by Indigenous tribes. Prichard et al. (in press) then review the research on management practices historically applied by Indigenous tribes and currently applied by some managers to intentionally manage forests for resilient conditions. They address ten questions surrounding the application and relevance of these management practices. Here, we highlight the main findings of both papers and offer recommendations for management. We discuss progress paralysis that often occurs with strict adherence to the precautionary principle; offer insights for dealing with the common problem of irreducible uncertainty and suggestions for reframing management and policy direction; and identify key knowledge gaps and research needs.

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“…PAR approaches have been used to accompany indigenous and marginalized communities in their fight to restore and maintain traditional spatiotemporal orientations and praxes. Indigenous food sovereignty programs have worked to restore the use of traditional indigenous land and fire management tactics, agricultural practices, and hunting customs on indigenous lands in the United States (Sowerwine et al, 2019). Such programs represent resistance to the abstracted and commodified understandings and uses of time and space in settler colonial regimes.…”

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Time-Space Distanciation as a Decolonizing Framework for Psychology

Schmitt

Young

Keefer

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Review of General Psychology

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Coloniality describes the way in which racialized conceptions of being, personhood, and morality inherent in colonial regimes are maintained long after the formal end of colonial enterprises. Central to coloniality has been the material and psychological colonization of space and time, largely by Western and industrialized nations. We propose the importance of understanding the coloniality of time and space through a historically grounded framework called time-space distanciation (TSD). This framework posits that via the global spread of capitalism through colonization, psychological understandings of time and space have been separated from one another, such that they are now normatively treated as distinct entities, each with their own abstract and quantifiable value. We discuss the construct and its centrality to coloniality, as well as the ways in which contemporary psychology has been complicit in proliferating the coloniality of psychologies of time and space. Finally, we discuss ways to employ the decolonial strategies of denaturalization, indigenization, and accompaniment in the context of future research on the psychology of time and space. TSD contributes to decolonial efforts by combatting the reification of hegemonic psychological constructs, showing how these constructs arise as a function of historical changes in understanding, experience, and use of time and space.

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Enhancing Food Sovereignty: A Five-year Collaborative Tribal-University Research and Extension Project in California and Oregon

Abstract: A long history of tribal disenfranchisement through government policies has contributed to a lack of trust and participation by tribal communities in nontribal organizations and initiatives. This article will discuss the process through which new

Cited by 36 publications

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The study of life and food systems for Native Hawaiians based on their environment

The study of life and food systems for Native Hawaiians based on their environment

Wildfire and climate change adaptation of western North American forests: a case for intentional management

Time-Space Distanciation as a Decolonizing Framework for Psychology

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