AIS 120 - Decolonizing Your Diet: Intro to Native Foods, Systems and Plants

Units: 3

Explores the disparate health conditions faced by Native communities as a result of colonization, and the efforts by many community groups to address these health problems through increasing community access to traditional foods, whether by gardening projects or a revival of hunting and fishing traditions. Examines the ways in which Native food movements have converged and diverged from general American local food movements, and the struggles they often face in reviving treaty-guaranteed food ways. Service Learning: Optional.

Satisfies GE area: F

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