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Indigenous Food Systems

Achieving Indigenous Food Sovereignty Through Collaboration and Innovation.

What we do

Identify

tribal lands suitable for sustainable food production

Design

computer software tailored to each tribe's food preferences and environmental conditions

Estimate

the number of people that can be fed a healthy diet from food grown on Indigenous lands

Disseminate

information and tools to our Indigenous partners so they can make informed decisions about food production on their lands

Indigenous communities experience substantial health disparities because of limited access to healthy food and dislocation from traditional food systems. This is the result of historical colonization and ongoing practices that have reduced Indigenous food sovereignty.

 

We address these challenges by collaborating with these communities to develop tribe-specific tools to support healthy, sustainable, and culturally appropriate food production on their lands.

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​Land Acknowledgement Statement

William & Mary acknowledges the Indigenous peoples who are the original inhabitants of the lands our campus is on today – the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway), Chickahominy, Eastern Chickahominy, Mattaponi, Monacan, Nansemond, Nottoway, Pamunkey, Patawomeck, Upper Mattaponi, and Rappahannock tribes – and pay our respect to their tribal members past and present.

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