Restoring Individual and Community Health: Northwest Native Plants and Foods Collective

Elise Krohn, M.Ed., Rose James, Valerie Segrest, Tracy Rector, Annie Brule, Brett Ramey, Elizabeth Campbell, Mariana Harvey, Miguel Hernandez, Vanessa Cooper, Susan Given Seymour, Roger Fernandes, Elaine Grinnell

Abstract

A team of native foods educators, nutritionists, herbalists, Native youth organizers, social media experts, tribal elders and story tellers has worked in collaboration with CWIS Fellow for Ethnobotany Elise Krohn, M.Ed to launch a year-long program of innovative indigenous plants and foods education classes, symposia, and American Indian and Alaskan Native train-the-trainer classes. The foundational concept of this program is the conviction that indigenous plants and foods practices have the power to strengthen individual and community health resilience, and to inspire Native youth to reclaim the power of health from a cultural relationship with the land.