Se p t e mber 2 02 0 Vo lum e 44 , Issue 3 Board of Directors president
Duane Champagne (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa)
All over the world, Indigenous communities are returning to traditional food production.
Vice President
Kaimana Barcarse (Kanaka Hawai’i)
Photo courtesy of Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa.
Treasurer
Steven Heim Clerk
Nicole Friederichs Valine Brown (Haida) Evelyn Arce Erickson (Muisca) Valine Brown (Haida) Carla Fredericks (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) Laura Graham Ajb’ee Jiménez (Maya Mam) Lesley Kabotie (Crow) John King Stephen Marks Tui Shortland (Ma–ori) Stella Tamang (Tamang) FOUNDERS David & Pia Maybury-Lewis Cultural Survival Headquarters 2067 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02140 t 617.441.5400 f 617.441.5417 www.cs.org Cultural Survival Quarterly
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F e at u r e s
D e pa r t m e n t s
10 Flipping the Script: Changing the Future of Food Production in Africa Phillippa Pitts
1 Executive Director’s Message
12 Indigenous Resilience: From the Mongolian Steppes to the Andean Mountains
4 Indigenous Arts Blak Lives Matter
An Interview with Million Belay
Amrita Gupta with Daniel Moss, Cass Madden, and Simon Mitambo
16 Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the Arctic Interview with Dr. Dalee Sambo Dorough (Iñupiat) and Carolina Behe
18 From Soil to Sky: Mending the Circle of Our Native Food Systems
Melissa K. Nelson (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) and Maya Harjo (Quapaw, Shawnee, Muscogee Creek, Seminole)
20 Te Koanga: A Time for Planting in Aotearoa Te Tui Shortland (Ma–ori)
2 In the News
6 Climate Change Climate Hopes and Fears for a Post-Pandemic World
8 Women the World Must Hear
Chef Crystal Wahpepah (Kickapoo)
30 Keepers of the Earth Fund Grant Partner Spotlight
Asamblea de los Pueblos Indígenas por la Soberanía Alimentaria
32 Youth Fellow Spotlight Juan Pablo Jojoa Coral (Quillasinga)
33 Bazaar Artists
The Zienzele Foundation
22 Back to the Roots: Restoring Indigenous Food Landscapes in Canada Interview with Dawn Morrison (Secwepemc)
24 Preserving Our Food Is Medicine
Linda Black Elk (Korean/Mongolian/Catawba descendant)
26 “Weavers of Knowledge” Go Virtual to Provide Real Food Security
Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests
28 If Not Us? The Indigneous Youth Homecoming Movement in Indonesia Interview with Mina Susana Setra (Dayak Pompakng)
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Cover photo: The Cultural Conservancy seed spiral with native seeds grown at Indian Valley Organic Farm, Novato, CA (see page 18). Photo by Maya Harjo.
