People’s Farm on the White Mountain Apache Tribe lands, Fort Apache Reservation

People’s Farm on the White Mountain Apache Tribe lands, Fort Apache Reservation

Today, food sovereignty movements across the U.S. are empowering Native Americans/Alaska Natives to determine their own policies related to food and agriculture and to revitalize Indigenous knowledge and practices around food. By reclaiming food systems and rebuilding resilient agriculture, they are addressing multiple public health challenges, from food insecurity to heart disease to type 2 diabetes. Restoring Indigenous food systems supports self-determination, wellness, culture, values, and languages and underscores relationships with the natural world.

Photographer
Ed Cunicelli

Center for Indigenous Health, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

2015

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English