USAIN/CBHL 2024 Biennial Meeting

Indigenous peoples’ identities, histories, spirituality, and traditions are inseparable from their ancestral homelands and place-based foodways. However, colonization has disrupted those relationships to food and land. Today, there is a growing Indigenous food movement working to restore those relationships and revitalize cultural foods, and seeds often play an important role. Whether they are a seed keeper, farmer, or homecook, the act of practicing ancestral foodways makes community members historians and cultural memory keepers– passing on the knowledge, technologies, and skills that have sustained and nourished generations.