Building food sovereignty, sustainability and better health in environmentally-impacted Native Americans

拉马普夫海龟部落的族长说：“我们农场恢复健康的土壤将使植物健康生长。 生产，从而产生健康的食物，以最佳的结果滋养我们的身体和精神。土著部落有 作为几十年来的产物，一直并将继续暴露在不成比例的有毒废物中 环境不公正。从这种灾难性的情况中走出来的是美洲原住民(NA)，他们甚至面临着 种植受污染的传统食品来源的受污染土壤产生不良健康后果的风险更大， 娱乐性水源退化导致与世隔绝，丧失主权、社区力量和 恢复力。新泽西州北部的Ramapough Lunaape海龟家族成员就是这样的情况，他们生活在 十多年来工业倾倒数千加仑油漆产生的500英亩有毒废物 含有高浓度重金属和溶剂的污泥。因为没有任何具有文化意义的解决方案 到目前为止，我们将在拉马普夫社区实施可以促进公共卫生和福祉的措施 建立在我们与这个部落国家长达8年的公平部落学术伙伴关系的基础上，以促进传统- 以证据为基础的可持续环境食品系统最佳实践战略 这个社区的食物不安全、营养不足和慢性病的健康后果 不成比例地受到环境污染的影响。三个具体目标和几个子目标是 提出了一种假设，即包括土壤、水和植物污染在内的一系列复杂因素， 心理社会压力、流离失所和对土地的环境攻击导致了粮食损失。 主权和可持续性；以及，粮食安全和文化粮食做法可以通过 社区工程耕作系统和教育战略：1)评估环境的程度 拉马普夫部落的污染、个体毒物负担和微量营养素水平与健康障碍 男女成员；2)在蒙西调整和实施以社区为中心的农业计划 三姐妹药用农场用地由设计工作室提供信息；以及3)评估开发 使用实施科学框架的农业方案的进程和早期成果，并完善 传播公共卫生行动计划，以减少粮食不安全、恢复粮食主权和改善 社区卫生。该项目将确定和实施安全和营养的耕作做法，并恢复 受环境影响和边缘化的半城市部落国家的粮食主权 由海龟家族创建的蒙西三姐妹支持的耕作系统计划的制定 药用农场。这项创新研究将整合以文化为中心的环境路线图 社区对粮食主权和可持续性的投入，可以分享和传播给其他 基于我们的研究制定环境公共卫生行动计划的受环境影响的国家 调查结果。

The Ramapough Turtle Clan Chief states that, “Return of healthy soil on our farm will allow healthy plant production, resulting in healthy foods to nurture our bodies and mind with optimum results.” Native Tribes have been, and continue to be, exposed to disproportionate amounts of toxic waste as a product of decades of environmental injustice. Emerging from this disastrous situation are Native Americans (NA) who face an even greater risk of adverse health outcomes from contaminated soil that grows tainted traditional food sources, degraded recreational water sources leading to isolation and a loss of sovereignty, community strength and resiliency. Such is the case for the Ramapough Lunaape Turtle Clan members in northern NJ who live on a 500-acre toxic waste site generated by over a decade of industrial dumping of thousands of gallons of paint sludge with high levels of heavy metals and solvents. As no culturally-meaningful solutions have been implemented for the Ramapough community that could promote public health and well-being to date, we will build on our equitable 8-year-long Tribal-academic partnerships with this Tribal Nation to advance tradition- centered, evidence-based best practice strategies for sustainable environmental food systems that address food insecurity, nutritional deficiency, and chronic disease health outcomes among this community disproportionately affected by environmental contamination. Three Specific Aims and several sub-aims are proposed to test the hypothesis that a complex array of factors including soil, water and plant contamination, psychosocial stressors, displacement and environmental assaults to the land have led to a loss of food sovereignty and sustainability; and, that food security and cultural food practices can be renewed through a community-engineered farming system and educational strategies to: 1) Assess the extent of environmental contamination, individual toxicant burdens and micronutrient levels and health disorders in Ramapough Tribal members of both sexes; 2) Adapt and implement a community-centered farming program on the Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm land informed by a design studio approach; and 3) Assess the development process and early outcomes of the farm program using an implementation science framework and refine the public health action plan for dissemination to reduce food insecurity, regain food sovereignty, and improve community health. This project will identify and implement safe and nutritious farming practices and restore food sovereignty among an environmentally-impacted and marginalized semi-urban Tribal Nation through development of a farming system program supported by the Turtle Clan-founded Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm. This innovative study will integrate a culturally-centered, environmental road map created from community input for food sovereignty and sustainability that can be shared and disseminated to other environmentally-impacted Nations leading to an environmental public health action plan based on our research findings.