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Video:Food sovereignty|Valerie Segrest at TEDxRainier
The Indian tribes around the Puget Sound have practiced sustainable balance with its foods for thousands of years, but now the prairie lands and mountain berry meadows are disappearing and salmons runs are dwindling. Valerie Segrest, a member of Muckleshoot tribe and native foods educator tells us to listen to the salmon and cedar tree,…
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Video: Voices and Visions of Indigenous Terra Madre
Indigenous Terra Madre is the gathering of indigenous communities and supporters that form part of the Slow Food movement. In November of 2015, representatives of 148 tribes from 58 countries gathered in Shillong, Khasiland, Meghalaya, India, to share information, strategies and resources around indigenous food and biocultural diversity. This video shares some of their voices…
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Video: Biocultural Diversity Combats Climate Change
Biocultural landscapes are holistic systems of culture and nature that have been shaped by human management over long periods of time. They maintain ecosystem health, utilize traditional knowledge, protect biodiversity, provide cultural value, build healthy soils, enhance resilience, nourish agriculture, fisheries, and forests, and mitigate climate change.
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Video: Biocultural Crops and Traditional Farming
New Mexico has a multi-cultural legacy of traditional food and agriculture. Native American and Hispano community leaders, academics, farmers, activists and government officials speak to this legacy and how it informs the dream of a healthy statewide food system.
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Tania Rubio: Biomachine Wind Animals
Video: Check out this sound installation that references bird calls, traditional pottery and technology. Interactive Sound Installation supported by the program Art, Science and Technology of FONCA-UNAM, 2019.
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Article: Biocultural Resilience for Systems Change
Whether or not humankind is going to achieve such a systems change and succeed in transitioning into the Ecozoic Age depends ultimately on our individual and collective courage to commit to a more holistic worldview that is based on valuing biocultural diversity for our own and our planet’s wellbeing. Find out more about bicultural diversity…
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Video: Tending the Wild- Gathering Medicine
Indigenous peoples in California relied on traditional gathering to provide for all of their food and medicinal needs. California’s landscapes produce hundreds of indigenous plant species that have been used thousands of years prior to European contact. And many of these plants and their preparations as medicine informed modern pharmacopeia, most notably aspirin, which is…
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Video: North America’s Original Cuisine – Foodways with Jessica Sanchez, Episode 8
In a remote corner of Colorado known as Dunton Hot Springs, Executive Chef Karlos Baca is educating guests on the meaning of indigenous cuisine. Using the bounty of the land such as bison and foraged forest ingredients, chef Baca continues to carry on the traditions of his ancestors not only through his cooking, but by…
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Resource: Stories and Legends- Indigenous Food Systems Network
Resource: Stories and legends can emphasize the value of Indigenous food related knowledge as well as roles, responsibilities and relationships between one another and the land, plants, and animals that provide us with our food. Sharing stories and legends will inspire and enable individuals and organizations to reflect and shift practices, and promote community food…
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Natalie Jeremijenko: The Art of the Eco Mindshift
Natalie Jeremijenko’s unusual lab puts art to work, and addresses environmental woes by combining engineering know-how with public art and a team of volunteers. These real-life experiments include: Walking tadpoles, texting “fish,” planting fire-hydrant gardens and more. https://www.ted.com/talks/natalie_jeremijenko_the_art_of_the_eco_mindshift?language=en
