Indigenous Food Systems and Food Sovereignty

Yumlish: Diabetes and Multicultural Nutrition

In this episode, Mariah Gladstone discusses the definition of food sovereignty and her involvement in the Indigenous food movement. She talks about what individuals can do to incorporate more indigenous, pre-colonial foods into their diet to improve health outcomes, combat chronic disease, and prevent diabetes.

Mariah Gladstone is Blackfeet and Cherokee and lives on the Blackfeet Nation in Northwest Montana. She is the founder of Indigikitchen, an online cooking show that reteaches information about Indigenous food preparation.

“I promote these ancestral foods so that we can really uplift those and recognize this ancestral wisdom that helped keep us alive for thousands of years before colonization.”

Question of the Day: What’s your favorite indigenous food?

On this Episode you will Learn:

Food Sovereignty

Decolonizing Medicine and Food Policy

Food as Resistance and Culture

Indigenous Food Systems

Reimagining Your Diet

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Key Points:

0:00 - Intro with Shireen!

2:10 - What drew you to become involved in Indigenous food systems and the food sovereignty movement?

3:40 - What is food sovereignty?

6:20 - How can we think about food as resistance and food as culture?

8:30 - What does it mean to decolonize food and medicine and “re-indigenize your diet”?

18:25 - Can incorporating more indigenous, pre-colonial foods into our diets can support chronic disease prevention and management? If so, how?

27:00 - How can our listeners connect with you and learn more about your work?

27:55 - Outro with Shireen!

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