{"id":1283,"date":"2013-06-30T21:22:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T21:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2018-11-27T22:25:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T22:25:42","slug":"symposium-on-indigenous-food-practices-in-our-border-region-is-a-huge-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/news\/symposium-on-indigenous-food-practices-in-our-border-region-is-a-huge-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium on indigenous food practices in our border region is a huge success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 1-2, 2013 the University of Washington\u2019s American Indian Studies Department held a two-day symposium,\u00a0<i>The Living Breath of W\u01dd\u026b\u01ddb\u0294altx\u02b7: Indigenous Ways of Knowing Cultural Food Practices and Ecological Knowledge<\/i>, which brought together over 180 people to hear Northwest Coast Native leaders, elders, and scholars from the U.S. and Canada share their knowledge and expertise about tribal food sovereignty initiatives, food justice and security issues, traditional foods and health, global climate change\u2019s impact on coastal indigenous food systems, treaties and reserved water rights, and treaty fishing rights and habitat protection.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium was coordinated by American Indian Studies\u2019 professors Charlotte Cot\u00e9 and Dian Million (also affiliated faculty of Canadian Studies), American Indian Studies\u2019 Academic Councilor and Lecturer Elissa Washuta, and Ph.D. candidate in U.W.\u2019s School of Public Health, Clarita Lefthand Begay. &#8220;We were very excited about the great response our event received,&#8221; said Cot\u00e9, which she says, demonstrates the need for more events like this that bring together Native and non-Native people from the Northwest to discuss these important environmental and indigenous food sovereignty issues. 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