Abstract
There is a deep and troubling history on Turtle Island of settler authorities asserting control over traditional foods, market-based and other introduced foods for Indigenous peoples. Efforts to control Indigenous diets and bodies have resulted in direct impacts to the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being of Indigenous peoples. Food insecurity is not only a symptom of settler colonialism, but part of its very architecture. The bricks and mortar of this architecture are seen through the rules and regulations that exist around the sharing and selling of traditional or land-based foods. Risk discourses concerning traditional foods work to the advantage of the settler state, overlooking the essential connections between land and food for Indigenous peoples. This article explores the ways in which the Canadian settler state undermined and continues to undermine Indigenous food sovereignty through the imposition of food safety rules and regulations across federal, provincial, and territorial jurisdictions.
Highlights
Over the last 20 years, Indigenous foods and food systems have received increasing scholarly attention [Ray et al, 2018; Burnett et al, 2015; Kelm, 1999; Lux, 2001; McCallum, 2017; McLachlan, 2014; Shewell, 2004; Cidro and Martens, 2014; Settee and Shukla, 2020; Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), 2015]
This article explores the ways in which the Canadian settler state undermined and continues to undermine Indigenous food sovereignty through the imposition of food safety rules and regulations across federal, provincial, and territorial jurisdictions
Less scholarship has explored the connections between Indigenous food and social dimensions such as identity, belonging, and healing in Canada, the objective of this paper is to examine the ways in which access to traditional foods are restricted through federal and provincial and territorial food safety rules and regulations
Summary
Over the last 20 years, Indigenous foods and food systems have received increasing scholarly attention [Ray et al, 2018; Burnett et al, 2015; Kelm, 1999; Lux, 2001; McCallum, 2017; McLachlan, 2014; Shewell, 2004; Cidro and Martens, 2014; Settee and Shukla, 2020; Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), 2015]. In Canada, Indigenous peoples experience rates of food insecurity that are disproportionately higher than non-Indigenous peoples (Skinner and Levi, 2018; Tarasuk, Mitchell, & Dachner, 2016).. For Indigenous peoples, has been linked to higher rates of poverty as well as a lack of access to traditional food sources, to name but a few factors (Power, 2008). Characteristic associated with a higher likelihood of food insecurity” (p.3). This article explores the ways in which the Canadian settler state undermined and continues to undermine Indigenous food sovereignty through the imposition of food safety rules and regulations across federal, provincial, and territorial jurisdictions.. What we seek to illustrate here are patterns of federal and provincial policies across time that erode Indigenous food sovereignty This article explores the ways in which the Canadian settler state undermined and continues to undermine Indigenous food sovereignty through the imposition of food safety rules and regulations across federal, provincial, and territorial jurisdictions. What we seek to illustrate here are patterns of federal and provincial policies across time that erode Indigenous food sovereignty
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