The Beaded Turtle

We hope to see you come out this weekend! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Experiencing the use of food insecurity as a weapon of control by the government is nothing new to First Nations in America. They destroyed our food systems, then forced us to rely on government rations.
So before you mock Native people for “depending on the government,” remember that dependency was created through genocide. You can’t take everything from a people, then shame them for surviving. We didn’t “fail” to be self-sufficient, the system was built to make sure we couldn’t be.
Yet here we are, still surviving and doing our best to rebuild food sovereignty. Food is medicine and access to healthy food is a human right.

Pictured: slaughter of the bison in late 1800s