“Sharing Across Generations: Honoring Indigenous Food Kinships: The Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ”
Indigenous Foods and Ecological Knowledge Symposium
May 4 and 5, 2018
8:45am – 5:00 pm
UW wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House
Includes continental breakfast and traditional foods lunch both days!
UW Students FREE! Other students and elders half off
Join us for this year’s Living Breath Indigenous Foods and Ecological Knowledge Symposium. This year we have opened our doors to invite you to two days of amazing panels and break-out sessions in honor of Native Youth and Elders. Elders have much to give and pass on. What are the best ways to listen to and honor our knowledge bearers? How do young people look to the future of our Native nations and communities and their sacred relations with their place and their planet? This year we make the conversation between elders and youth prominent! Join us to share knowledge, experience and expertise on tribal food sovereignty initiatives, food justice and security, traditional foods and health, indigenous foods systems and global climate change. We invite all of you who hold these issues dear to join us for this important conversation. Your voice is welcomed!
* A link to the two-day schedule will be uploaded to the American Indian Studies website soon.
We have a great line-up of speakers and presentations!
– “Transformational Eating: Ceremony of Gratitude.”
– “Rotinoshon:ni Seeds and Sovereignty, from Creation to Contamination: Looking at the Effects of Genetically Modified Organisms on Indigenous Seeds and People.”
– “Iskwew mācīwin, Woman hunting, among the paskwāwiyiniwak, muskegowininiwak, and sakāithiniwak (Plains, Swampy & Woodland Cree peoples).”
– Empowering Muckleshoot Youth through Traditional Foods, Plants, Medicines, and Living Cultural.”
– “Everyday Healing Practices: Implementing Immaterial Cultural Wealth to Combat Intergenerational Trauma.”
– “Native Youth Culinary Roots.”
– “Building and Sustaining an Indigenous Community Garden.”
– “Yahowt Indigenous Women’s Permaculture Program.”
Register at: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3339286
* All prices include a continental breakfast and a traditional Northwest Coast foods lunch included for day or days purchased.
Adults: 20.00 for a day or 35.00 for both days
UW Students (Seattle, Tacoma and Bothell) FREE but must register.
Youth rate (12-21):10.00 one day/15.00 both days
Elders: (65 and over)-10.00 one day/15.00 both days
NOTE: A one-day ticket allows you to enter whatever day that you use it. One-day tickets aren’t issued specific to date. Please purchase and we will record your entrance at event.
TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR SALE AT THE DOOR
For more information contact symposium coordinator Stephanie Riedl at stephanie@naahillahee.org.
For registration questions contact the registration coordinator Jordan Woolston at jorbrowo@uw.edu.
Symposium sponsors: Na’ah Illahee Fund, UW’s American Indian Studies Department, Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity, College of the Environment, Devon Peña (The Acequia Institute) Bill Holm Center, UW-Tacoma, Social and Historical Studies, UW-Tacoma, Office of Equity & Inclusion, wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House, Lucy Jarosz (Department of Geography), Jackson School/Canadian Studies, Dr. Marc Gladney.
Planning Committee: Dr. Charlotte Coté, Dr. Dian Million, Jessica Hernandez, Dr. Michelle Montgomery, Susan Balbas, Dr. Clarita Lefthand Begay, and Jordan Woolston.
