Join us for a Virtual Screening of Gather on November 22nd

Did you know 75% of the variety in global diets comes from products cultivated by indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere? No such thing as Italian tomatoes, Irish Potatoes, Thai chilis, East Indian spicy curries, Swiss chocolate or African cassava without the extraction of these goods by early colonists.

For centuries after that first Contact, US government and military policy worked to separate indigenous peoples from traditional lands and as a result from thousands of years of cultural and spiritual relationships with that land. A significant aspect of these relationships was incredibly deep ecological knowledge of local food systems.

The poor health outcomes in Indian Country aren’t merely a result of poverty but, rather, of centuries of economic and government policy that targets their right to live in a traditional, environmentally-balanced manner.

Native food rights are human rights. Join us in supporting Gather, a new film about the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide.

Check out the trailer here. Gather is available now on iTunes and Amazon. In honor of Native American Heritage Month, Edible Madison has organized a free virtual screening for our southwest Wisconsin community on Sunday, November 22nd at 4:00pm. Please join us, and tell your friends! Click here for details on how to access the film!

Learn More

Presentation: Indigenous Food Sovereignty in Wisconsin
By Dan Cornelius, member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and works for the Intertribal Agriculture Council and the UW-Madison Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center. Click here to view presentation.

First Nations Development Institute

Wisconsin First Nations: American Indian Studies in Wisconsin