Indigenous Food Sovereignty- Community Healing Through Food & Culture

For this program they hope to connect youth with their culture through the power of food. This 8 session adventure will teach about the uses of food and medicines that are Indigenous to their city, they will have medicine walks, harvesting days, cooking sessions, and many teachings about the land, waters, food and their peoples. This program will also have 2 overnight opportunities for youth to learn about the star teachings and how the stars showed us the season’s cycle affecting their food. Youth will also have an amazing opportunity to craft their own moccasins at this program, as they are taught they wore moccasins to harvest their foods because it brings them closer to the land. They would like to do this activity a week before their first big harvest at the end of June (the berry season) to give the full understanding of the teaching. Youth will also help to put up a tipi before the end of the summer to learn the importance of ceremony with the land you fed from.