{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Season 3, Episode 3 - Handpicked Presents: The Indigenous Health and Food Systems Podcast \u2013 \u201cEnvironmental Dispossession:\u201d","description":"  Hosted by:\u202fDr. Marylynn Steckley  Produced in collaboration with: Dr. Sonia Wesche, Victoria Marchand, & Dr. Josh Steckley    In this episode of Handpicked: Stories from the Field, we present an episode of the Indigenous Health and Food Systems Podcast called, \u201cEnvironmental Dispossession, Land, and the Environment\u201d This podcast is hosted by Dr. Marylynn Steckley from Carleton University and is produced in collaboration with Dr. Sonia Wesche and Victoria Marchand from the University of Ottawa and Dr. Josh Steckley from the University of Toronto, Scarborough. The Indigenous Health and Food Systems Podcast aims to elevate the voices of Indigenous scholars in the areas of Indigenous health, food sovereignty, and the social determinants of health. This episode explores the complicated nature of Indigenous connections to land, and how that impacts Indigenous food systems. The guests in the episode explore ideas of environmental dispossession, traditional Indigenous food practices, and environmental stewardship.     Contributors  Co-Producers & Hosts: Laine Young & Amanda Di Battista   Producer: Charlie Spring  Sound Design & Editing: Laine Young & Narayan Subramoniam    Guests  Dr. Kahente Horn-Miller  Dr. Hannah Tait Neufeld  Ida Harkness  Emily Charman  Chanel Best  Brette Thomson  Hannah Arnold    Support & Funding  Funding for the Indigenous Health & Food Systems Podcast episode was provided to M. Steckley and S. Wesche by a Shared Online Projects Initiative grant through a partnership between the University of Ottawa and Carleton University. Dr. Josh Steckley was supported by the Sustainable Food and Farming Futures Cluster at the University of Toronto, Scarborough  Wilfrid Laurier University  The Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems  Balsillie School for International Affairs   CIGI    Music Credits  Keenan Reimer-Watts  Keith Whiteduck    Resources  Moving Beyond Acknowledgments- LSPIRG Whose Land Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems Indigenous Food Systems and Food Sovereignty Podcast    The Inconvenient Indian   Tait Neufeld, H. And C.A.M., Richmond, Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre. 2017. Impacts of Place and Social Spaces on Traditional Food Systems in Southwestern Ontario. International Journal of Indigenous Health 12(1):93.    Connect with Us:  Email: Handpickedpodcast@WLU.ca Twitter\/X: @Handpickedpodc Facebook: Handpicked Podcast   Glossary of Terms  Alienation  In Marxist thought, the separation of humans from meaningful engagement with their lifeworlds, specifically through wage labour.   https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/horowitz\/courses\/lectures\/35_marx_alienation.html   Colonialism \u201cColonialism has been defined as systems and practices that \u2018seek to impose the will of one people on another and to use the resources of the imposed people for the benefit of the imposer\u2019 (Assante, 2006). Colonialism can operate within political, sociological, cultural values and systems of a place even after occupation by colonizers has ended. Colonization is defined as the act of political, physical and intellectual occupation of space by the (often forceful) displacement of Indigenous populations, and gives rise to settler-colonialism, colonial and neo-colonial relations, and coloniality."  https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/edu\/unleading\/systems-of-oppression\/coloniality-and-settler-colonialism\/ The Coming Faces\/ Seven Generations  The Coming Faces is a metaphor for future generations that will need food, water, and land (Horn-Miller \u2013 this episode). It is a way of acting with future generations in mind and aligns with the Anishnabek principle of the Seven Generations (Steckley \u2013 this episode).   Crown Land   Land owned by the provincial government.   Displacement  An act of physical and spiritual removal of people from land, an act of colonization.  Environmental Dispossession  This describes the loss of land and physical displacement that has resulted in Indigenous populations experiencing trauma, poverty, health and other social problems.  https:\/\/ir.lib.uwo.ca\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1200&context=aprci   Environmental Stewardship  \u201cThe responsible use and protection of the natural environment through conservation and sustainable practices to enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being"  https:\/\/dash.harvard.edu\/handle\/1\/9774650  Food sovereignty\u202f  "Food Sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems."\u202f  https:\/\/viacampesina.org\/en\/\u202f  Grounded Normativity  \u201cTerm by Indigenous scholar Glen Coulthard to describe Indigenous peoples\u2019 relationships to land and place, and the solidarity that emerges from this."  https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/26359594  Indian Act  A policy enacted by the federal government in 1876 which led to the elimination of any Indigenous self-government, mandated attendance in residential schools, banned Indigenous spiritual and cultural activities, removal of land, and other discriminatory actions.  https:\/\/www.nwac.ca\/assets-knowledge-centre\/Indian-Act-Said-What-infographic.pdf  Land Back   \u201ca movement that has existed for generations with a long legacy of organizing and sacrifice to get Indigenous Lands back into Indigenous hands.\u201d  https:\/\/landback.org\/  Original Instructions  The constellation of teachings and ethical guidelines for living: for hunting, family and ceremonial life, and so on.  https:\/\/www.robinwallkimmerer.com\/  Residential Schools  The Indian residential schools operated in Canada between the 1870s and 1990s, with the goal of assimilating Indigenous people into settler society. These were ran by the Canadian government and various churches. Over 150,000 Indigenous people are estimated to have attended these institutions. Indigenous children were separated from their families, forbidden to speak their traditional languages, and many suffered extreme physical, mental, spiritual, emotional and sexual abuse, neglect, and death.  https:\/\/www.anishinabek.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/An-Overview-of-the-IRS-System-Booklet.pdf  Resurgence  Unlike reconciliation, Indigenous resurgence focuses less on reconciliation with settlers, and centres around Indigenous nations determining how Indigenous rights, recognition, and relationships with other peoples will be respected.   https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0006320719307803   Three Sisters  Corn, beans and squash: three crops grown in symbiotic relationship in some Indigenous communities. In Haudenosaunee storytelling, the Three Sisters sprouted from the body of Sky Woman\u2019s daughter.  https:\/\/agriculture.canada.ca\/en\/science\/story-agricultural-science\/scientific-achievements-agriculture\/three-sisters-optimizing-value-and-food-potential-ancestral-indigenous-crop-system    Discussion Questions   What is land?  What are some of the different ways that speakers described relating to land and land ownership? Why is the \u2018family cottage\u2019 a delicate conversation in Canada? In what ways do the concepts of Coming Faces and the Three Sisters speak to environmental sustainability? How does \u2018land dispossession\u2019 differ from \u2018environmental dispossession\u2019? How does history and the ongoing colonization faced by Indigenous people affect the food system? How could the return of land through the Land Back movement positively impact Indigenous people\u2019s access to traditional foods and food practices? Many of the students in this episode expressed challenges with discussing the ideas of stolen land and the Land Back movement with their families. If you were going to discuss this with your family, what language and ideas would you use?          ","author_name":"Handpicked: Stories from the Field","author_url":"https:\/\/researchcentres.wlu.ca\/centre-for-sustainable-food-systems\/broadcasting-change\/handpicked-podcast.html","html":"