Indigenous Food Systems Network
The IFSN is a massive network promoting Indigenous food sovereignty as a way to bring both nutritional and community health back into Indigenous communities. It’s primary function is as a network to connect and educate people and groups who are thinking about Indigenous food in terms of action, policy, and education. The site has profiles of individuals, community networks, and food-related projects. There are also entire pages devoted to recipes and stories/legends. These both show the many ways food knowledges are shared intergenerationally through community practices.
My favorite quote from their website reads:
“In contrast to the highly mechanistic, linear food production, distribution, and consumption model applied in the industrialized food system, Indigenous food systems are best described in ecological rather than neoclassical economic terms. In this context, an Indigenous food is one that has been primarily cultivated, taken care of, harvested, prepared, preserved, shared, or traded within the boundaries of our respective territories based on values of interdependency, respect, reciprocity, and ecological sensibility. As the most intimate way in which Indigenous peoples interact with our environment, Indigenous food systems are in turn maintained through our active participation in traditional land and food systems.”