North American Urban Indigenous Food Systems

Abstract

These compiled stories were shared as part of a moderated panel during the Sixth Annual Conference on Native American Nutrition that was held in September 2023 at Mystic Lake Center on the lands of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community within present day Prior Lake, Minnesota. Other members of the North American Urban Indigenous Food System network supported by the University of Waterloo and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations were also invited to contribute their perspectives on the inspiring community-led work that is taking place within their respective urban spaces and places across Turtle Island. Network members shared the unique circumstances associated with finding spaces and places of connection and belonging in the city and how practices of Indigenous food sovereignty through knowledge sharing and ecological responsibilities provide healing through relationship.