Reclaiming food security in the Mohawk community of Kahnawa:ke through Haudenosaunee responsibilities
Reclaiming food security in the Mohawk community of Kahnawa:ke through Haudenosaunee responsibilities
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DOI：
10.1111/mcn.12556
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发表时间：
2017-11-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Marquis, Kaylia
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作者：
Delormier, Treena;Horn-Miller, Kahente;Marquis, Kaylia
土著人民正在通过振兴粮食系统、生计、知识系统和治理，重新获得粮食安全、营养和福祉。我们的粮食安全研究以可持续自决为指导，重点是恢复土著文化责任以及与土地、彼此和自然世界的关系（Corntassel, 2008）。我们来自加拿大魁北克省Kahnawa:ke的Kanien'keha:ka（莫霍克人）研究小组研究了我们社区的粮食不安全经验，以探索维护我们豪德诺索尼人责任和加强当地粮食安全的方法。我们合作设计了这项研究，并采访了Kahnawakehro:non（来自Kahnawakehro社区的人），他们拥有传统知识，丰富的社区经验，对食物和文化感兴趣。访谈由小组录音、转录和分析。分析分析了粮食不安全的经历和条件，这些经历和条件挑战并促进了粮食安全，同时关注了传统粮食系统、与土地的关系以及与性别有关的责任。研究结果表明，社区责任产生了有弹性的战略，可以在危机时期为所有人提供帮助，通过社会项目、有组织的慈善机构和家庭支持来管理长期粮食不安全。加强粮食安全涉及修复和保护有限的粮食生产土地基础，将粮食生产与教育、培训、卫生、经济发展和科学创新等社区优先事项结合起来。培养与生命维持食物、自然世界和彼此之间的精神联系，需要加速教学和实践我们最初的指导。在发展粮食安全领导、平衡资本主义和自给经济以及加强社会关系方面的挑战根植于历史上的殖民和当前的定居者-殖民背景，这种背景破坏了Kanien'keha:ka社会的各个方面。
Indigenous Peoples are reclaiming their food security, nutrition, and well-being by revitalizing food systems, livelihoods, knowledge-systems, and governance. Our food security research is guided by sustainable self-determination that focuses on restoring Indigenous cultural responsibilities and relationships to land, each other, and the natural world (Corntassel, 2008). Our Kanien'keha:ka (Mohawk) research team from Kahnawa:ke, in Quebec, Canada, examines food insecurity experiences in our community to explore ways of upholding our Haudenosaunee responsibilities and enhancing local food security. We collaboratively designed the study and interviewed Kahnawakehro:non (people from the Kahnawake community) with traditional knowledge, extensive community experience, and interests in food and culture. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and analysed by the team. Analysis characterized food insecurity experiences and conditions that challenge and enable food security with attention to traditional food systems, relationships to land, and gender-related responsibilities. Findings show that communal responsibilities generate resilient strategies that provide for all in times of crisis, and long-term food insecurity is managed through social programs, organized charities, and family support. Enhancing food security involves healing and protecting a limited land-base for food production, integrating food production with community priorities for education, training, health, economic development, and scientific innovation. Nurturing spiritual connections with tionhnhehkwen (life sustaining foods), the natural world, and each other calls for accelerated teaching and practicing our original instructions. Challenges in developing food security leadership, balancing capitalism and subsistence economies, and strengthening social relationships are rooted in the historical colonial and current settler-colonial context that disrupts all aspects of Kanien'keha:ka society.