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5.1 FOOD - Chandler Jensen, INFO 353 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Named in the first words of her ancestors’ at the Treaty of Point Elliott
  - - - “Clams have always been an important food source, that’s how tribes survived.” Tony Forsman, Suquamish Seafood
  - - - Lolita Edaakie recalls her family
        planting corn, wheat, and beans
        at Nutria and trading them for other foods
      - Wild potatoes also appeared
        on their own, and she gathered them
        by the bucketful
  - - - Tribal members are growing and gathering them again
- - - - Cooked in fire pits of volcanic rock
        from the beach
  - - - "Sacred friendships" that teach without words
  - - - The 2026 Journey was held by Suquamish
- - - - Combining traditional knowledge with Western science
  - - - "the inverse of raised beds"
      - Curtis Quam's family garden
      - Daniel Bowannie's ~100 modified gardens, using wooden planks instead of clay
  - - - A crab apple tree that will feed
        people for 200 years
  - - - Methods passed down
        through generations
- - - - Recipes alongside oral histories, published by the tribe's museum
  - - - Commercial and cultural
        uses coexisting
  - - - Co-developed with Tulalip, hosted at
        the Hibulb Cultural Center
  - - - Toolkit for learning about Coast Salish
        culture and traditions
    - - Connects Native people with
        Native food producers
- - - - "At the core of tribal sovereignty
        is food sovereignty"
  - - - Declined with shift
        to cash labor
      - Climate change expected to
        intensify extreme weather
  - - - Indian Health Service: tribal control of
        growing through distribution
      - La Vía Campesina: peoples define
        their own food systems
  - - - Health suffered when access
        to traditional foods was lost
  - - - "It's who we are, it's who the tribe is."