Native American Food Sovereignty, Explained

People are overweight because they eat SAD (Standard American Diet).

Thank you for this educational content.

Farmer here (in two very different regions)- It takes roughly 7 years to regenerate soil. Removal happened in the 1830s. It's presently 2024, almost 200 years later. If people were growers in their original homelands, their "new lands" would be as fertile as Terra Preta of the Amazon.

I have heard of this term " food desert" – a lack of grocery stores. People protest this in my city. I have never advocated for or against a grocery store. First of all grocery stores are a business. If there is profit to be made by selling food, then grocery stores will pop up. Corporations do not care about anything but GREEN…so if there is a large enough population for a grocery store to service, yet these stores don't PoP up……..then there is an underlining reason why the corporations don't think it is profitable to set up shop. I can't say for your area,but the food deserts by me are some of the scariest-lawless neighborhoods to be in…….and yet the people in those neighborhoods rather protest about the food desert than to make their neighborhood safe and profitable for stores to sell groceries.

I remember learning so much about indigenous cultures in elementary school, and I didn’t know any of my Cherokee heritage beyond singing Jesus loves me in the language. I remember telling my mom we should stop buying flour and just use acorns, they’re literally everywhere on our property, bountiful and healthy.

OmG! Id never considered this, but the Native Americans really were prohibited from their native foods– the same food THEY are responsible for creating and manifesting smh. Grrr! I'm white, like XX white I mean, but i really cringe when looking back at what some of the fellow white folk did to the Natives in America. That's so hard to accept smh turns my stomach some💔🥺🇺🇸

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?? I think I heard that there wasn't even a single treaty upheld. Many were written but not one was ever granted or followed. Anybody know the stats? I'm not 100%sure…anybody??

Soooo what’s stopping them from returning to their roots?

They are right. The health of the earth is the health of the people.

I didn’t know about what they did to the buffalo. That is abhorrent and devastating not just to the native Americans but the innocent animals too.

Fresh, healthy food is more expensive everywhere. Not just reservations

I love that the background graphics is ledger paper.

We called commodity food “line cheese” because you gotta stand in line to get in.

I’ll put it this way, I am so white I likely have less native heritage than the average white American. My husband’s grandfather has native heritage though, like enough he remembers his native grandmother (or great grandmother, I can’t remember which). It was a family secret for a long time since natives rights were not recognized at the time. With how much the US government did to attempt to extetminate native Americans, I think it would not be fair to put the exact same amount of time and energy to revisit what they attempted to erase. I’m so glad there’s channels like yours talking about this. I hope in my lifetime to learn a native language, I think that would be so wonderful!

I was recently on a trip abroad with several French friends, and one of them asked me “what are truly American foods, that aren’t just adaptations of different European dishes?”

Honestly, it’s so difficult to imagine what food was like on either side of the Atlantic before colonization, because so many things have become extremely widespread even among the poor that didn’t exist there or here before 1500. But I did immediately think of grits

While the topic is interesting I wished it was reported with less biased fairytale nationalism

Unrelated to the video but I love when YouTube added the changing comments but I wish it would bring up the one it’s showing when you clicked on it

monoagriculture is extremely dumb

USA is a Disaster.

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Native people know how to live in harmony with the natural world—indigenous beliefs, traditions and practices encompass so much wisdom and should be respected and honored.

USA patriots 👇

i miss gubmint cheese

"Food Sovereignty" 🙄

This is so interesting, i dejectedly have to say that i watch a lot of videos about history, but mostly from europe, where i am from.
I am very excited to broaden my knowledge with this channel, thank you!! 🙂