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How Traditional Food Is Helping Communities in a Changing Arctic

Sophie Yeo

September 24, 2018 |

Pacific Standard |

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Response Location: Canada, Iqaluit, Nunavut

In Arctic communities where traditional knowledge has faded and intergenerational traumas continue to impact people, food programs are stepping in to help save that culture while also feeding people. The Qajuqturvik Food Centre builds relationships with hunters, offers traditional meals, and emphasizes community to promote well-being.

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'It runs in her culture': Spelling bees transforming one Navajo community

Megan Janetsky

September 19, 2018 |

AZ Central (The Arizona Republic) |

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Response Location: United States, For Defiance, Arizona

Interest in spelling bees in one Navajo Nation district shot up after Kelly Haven made it to the national stage in Washington D.C., representing children who had never before seen anyone like her make it that far. The increased interest has led to consistent local funding for resources to assist in preparing for the bees, renewed vigor in classrooms and an improvement in test scores as well as graduation rates. Before Kelly made it to the national stage, no one from her school district had made it to the regional bee in a decade. Eight children qualified for the Navajo Nation spelling bee the following year.

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This Food Truck Owner Wants to Decolonize Your Diet

Serena Maria Daniels

August 28, 2018 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

A food truck in a Detroit Latinx neighborhood offers “decolonized” food—food made up of staples of the Latinx culture before colonization. In this way, the truck—and other community activists working on food issues—hopes to make healthy food available and promote healthier eating.

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This Tactical Urbanist Is Pasting Narratives of Enslaved People All over Richmond

Gregory Scruggs

August 27, 2018 |

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Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

Untold RVA, a project developed by ‘tactical urbanist’ Free Egunfemi, intervenes in public space to foreground the history of slavery and the lives of the enslaved in Richmond. While work is being done to dismantle Richmond’s commemorations of the Confederacy, Egunfemi and other activists are working to ensure the people survived unimaginably oppression are not forgotten.

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Pacific Islanders Look Back on Tradition to Protect Their Future

Will Higginbotham

August 07, 2018 |

OZY |

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Response Location: Samoa

To combat climate change, some Pacific Islanders are turning to tradition indigenous knowledge upgraded with recent innovations in green technology. Examples includes constructing homes with indigenous building techniques that are more disaster-resilient and farming techniques that emphasize drought-tolerant crops.

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Standing Rock Medic Bus Is Now a Traveling Decolonized Pharmacy

Mary Annette Pember

July 27, 2018 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Frank's Landing, Washington

Indigenous-led herbalists accompanied a two-week-long canoe gathering along the coast of Washington and Canada. They aimed to decolonize herbalism and support sustainable plant medicine and helped canoe gathering participants find “a deeper healing.” The group rode in a bus that previously served as a kitchen and treatment center during the Standing Rock movement.

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In Kotzebue, Alaska, Hunters Are Bringing Traditional Foods—and a Sense of Comfort—to Their Local Elders

Charlee Catherine Dyroff

July 17, 2018 |

Pacific Standard |

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Response Location: United States, Kotzebue, Alaska

In the northernmost nursing home in the U.S.,the Hunter Support Program has existed for more than two decades in an attempt to provide traditional foods to Kotzebue, Alaska's elders. While the program has faced roadblocks, the program's model of person-centered care has been hailed as a clear positive for the elders and the overall community. So much so that, in 2014, an amendment titled "Service of Traditional Foods in Public Facilities" was passed as a way to formally recognize the necessity of traditional food in the nursing home.

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This Indigenous tribe in Colombia is run solely by women

Lucy Sheriff

July 10, 2018 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

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Response Location: Colombia

Thirteen years ago the Wayuu tribe, located in Colombia, removed it’s male chiefdom and instead asked women to be their leaders. According to the Wayuu tribe they are the only indigenous tribe in Colombia that exclusively has women leaders. ”We wanted women to use their way of dialogue to resolve our conflicts, and we wanted to transform our culture.”

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People Across the Globe Want Their Cultural Heritage Back. Canada May Offer a Blueprint for How to Get There

Kate Brown

June 25, 2018 |

Artnet |

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Response Location: Canada

A recently proposed Canadian law would create comprehensive support for the repatriation of cultural objects back from museums to First Nations people. The law addresses a common and critical hurdle for repatriation: funds for the transport and safe storage of objects upon their return.

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How a University and a Tribe Are Teaming Up to Revive a Lost Language

Mary Annette Pember

June 09, 2018 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Oxford, Ohio

The Myaamia Center, a language initiative led by the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and Miami University, has led to the preservation of the Myaamia language and culture. The center, which has become a model for other universities, is the result of a relationship between the university and the tribe that dates back to 1972. Together, they have helped move predominantly white institutions like Miami University towards racial equity.

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