Description
Product ID: | 9780295749525 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Indigenous Confluences |
Title: | A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other |
Subtitle: | Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast |
Authors: | Author: Charlotte Cote |
Page Count: | 208 |
Subjects: | History of the Americas, History of the Americas, Social and cultural history, Cultural studies: food and society, Indigenous peoples, Social & cultural history, Food & society, Indigenous peoples, Canada |
Description: | Winner of the 2023 Donald L. Fixico Award for most innovative book on American Indian and Canadian First Nations History from the Western History AssociationHonorable Mention for the 15th Annual Labriola Center American Indian National Book AwardForegrounds the importance of Indigenous food in cultural revitalization and healingIn the dense rainforest of the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Somass River (c?uuma?as) brings sockeye salmon (mi?aat) into the Nuu-chah-nulth community of Tseshaht. C?uuma?as and mi?aat are central to the sacred food practices that have been a crucial part of the Indigenous community’s efforts to enact food sovereignty, decolonize their diet, and preserve their ancestral knowledge. In A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other, Charlotte Coté shares contemporary Nuu-chah-nulth practices of traditional food revitalization in the context of broader efforts to re-Indigenize contemporary diets on the Northwest Coast. Coté offers evocative stories of her Tseshaht community’s and her own work to revitalize relationships to ha?um (traditional food) as a way to nurture health and wellness. As Indigenous peoples continue to face food insecurity due to ongoing inequality, environmental degradation, and the Westernization of traditional diets, Coté foregrounds healing and cultural sustenance via everyday enactments of food sovereignty: berry picking, salmon fishing, and building a community garden on reclaimed residential school grounds. This book is for everyone concerned about the major role food plays in physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness. Winner of the 2023 Donald L. Fixico Award for most innovative book on American Indian and Canadian First Nations History from the Western History Association |
Imprint Name: | University of Washington Press |
Publisher Name: | University of Washington Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-01-28 |