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Food
Gratitude and Uses
Community use: feasts, dances, home gardens, foods that feed spirit and health. Livelihood: treaty fishing and clamming, trade, NCAI’s support for Native farmers and ranchers, a waffle garden that steadies a household.
What they want known: care for the land and the water, and the food cares for the people. NCAI names that protection as food-sovereignty work. Tulalip’s story begins in lost access and moves by restoring the relationship.
NCAI; OMSI (2023); Segrest (2014)
Suquamish clam bake. Clams and oysters steamed on hot beach rock for birthdays and gatherings. The meal is a thank-you on the shore the food came from — shared, for the people there.
Suquamish practice
Zuni Harvest Dance. Each fall, elders and youth dance together to welcome the harvest. Corn and the season are celebrated in public. Gratitude is something the community does.
Zuni community practice
Foods are the greatest teachers, and they teach without a spoken word. Cedar, the long-life giver, stands through storms and holds the earth. The question left open: live so that your life teaches the people who come after.
Segrest (2014) · Muckleshoot / Coast Salish
Soverignity
TFSAI’s digital home does five jobs: a forum for leaders, help writing tribal food policy, federal advocacy on food programs, protection of lands and waters, and training for Native farmers, ranchers, and food providers.
NCAI defines it as the right of tribal nations to name food sovereignty for themselves, to secure culturally essential food by sustainable methods, and to keep citizens thriving for generations.
National Congress of American Indians, TFSAI (n.d.)
“At the core of tribal sovereignty is food sovereignty.” Traditional foods feed the body and the spirit. They are a living link to the land and to who a people are.
Valerie Segrest (2014) · Muckleshoot Food Sovereignty Project
In 1855, Muckleshoot ancestor Pat Kanim spoke first at the Treaty of Point Elliott about access to foods: game, fish, shellfish, roots, berries and cedar
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Salmon, Berries, Corn, Clams
Clams and oysters on Suquamish beaches, and the shellfish named with the salmon in 1855. Harvest depends on tide, season, and knowing that shore.
Suquamish practice; Segrest (2014)
Corn marks the Zuni harvest: stalks go up when the community dances in the fall. The waffle beds beside the fields hold thirstier crops — onions, chiles — tended close to the house.
Moran (2021) · Zuni Pueblo; Harvest Dance
Berries sit in the treaty list beside roots and cedar. Tulalip’s rediscovery work brings native food and medicine plants back into gardens and diets after access and health had thinned.
Segrest (2014); OMSI (2023); Kalliber (2015)
Salmon. Coast Salish elders told of runs so thick you could cross the river on their backs. Muckleshoot teaching receives that return as love, generosity, and abundance.
Segrest (2014) · Muckleshoot / Coast Salish