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EMET, SW.ISTA ḰÁL- Sit Down Let's Talk was coined by J,SIṈTEN - Dr. John Elliott A traditional Knowledge Keeper of W̱JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip) First Nation and WSANEC Elder, J,SIṈTEN is a leader in language revitalization who has made it his life's work to ensure language in the SENĆOŦEN is taught and documented.

The Working group: EMET, SW.ISTA ḰÁL is a working group whose objective is to support and build food sovereignty on the peninsula within our communities of BOḰEĆEN (Pauquachin), SȾÁ¸EU¸TW̱ (Tsawout), W̱JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip), W̱S͸KEM (Tseycum).

The working group connects to: learn, practice, protect, conserve and restore Indigenous land and food systems in our communities and traditional territories.

We invite you to join us to:

  • Learn together

  • Support community learning

  • Undertake activities that promote food sovereignty in our communities

EMET, SW.ISTA ḰÁL

Sit Down Let’s Talk - Working Group

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Fish Head Soup                                 R. M. Spahan

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R. M. Spahan

WORKING GROUP FOUNDING MEMBERS​

Amanda Henry, Jada Henry, Beangka Elliot, Laurie Henry, Julie Parnell, Myrna Crossley-Elliott, Elder Earl Claxton Jr. , Anna Spahan, Krista Larson, Linda Geggie and Rose Spahan

For more information and to get in touch, contact:

Rose Spahan, Liaison: rosespahan62@gmail.com

Indigenous food sovereignty is a growing movement aimed at achieving long-term food security for Indigenous peoples. It focuses on addressing the unique challenges faced in accessing healthy, culturally appropriate foods. This focuses on cultural practices and community involvement, emphasizing four key principles identified by the Indigenous Working Group on Food Sovereignty, and summarized as:

1. Sacred Sovereignty: Food is a sacred gift from the Creator, Indigenous food sovereignty is fundamentally achieved by upholding a responsibility to nurture healthy, interdependent relationships with the land, plants and animals that provide us with our foods and medicines.

2. Participatory and active: IFS is daily ongoing engagement in traditional harvesting practices is essential at all community levels.

3. Self-Determination Indigenous communities must have control of their food sources, free from dependency on industrial food systems with the ability to make decisions over the amount and quality of food we hunt, fish, gather, grow and eat.

4. Policy: Efforts are made to better align Indigenous values as a restorative framework for policy reform related to management and access of foods and medicine, the lands and waters, and ecosystems that sustain us.

This approach builds on millennia of Indigenous knowledge, values, and wisdom to ensure food sovereignty today.

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CRFAIR supports the development of this network by hosting its communication tools, generating funding for coordination of network activities, and coordinating the Good Food Summit. 

CRFAIR and the Good Food Network promote healthy and sustainable food systems.  This considers our relationships with each other, and the land and waters of this region.  We endeavour to honour the land and its treaties by strengthening our relationship and responsibilities to them. We live and work on unceded Coast Salish Territories*, specifically of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees) and Xwsepsum (Esquimalt) Nations here in the core area, the W̱SÁNEĆ Nations {W̱JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip), BOḰEĆEN (Pauquachin), SȾÁUTW̱,(Tsawout) W̱SIKEM (Tseycum)} out on the Saanich Peninsula and Gulf Islands, to the west Sc'ianew (Beecher Bay), T’Sou-ke, and Pacheedaht, and MÁLEXEȽ (Malahat) and Pune’laxutth’ (Penelekut) Nations.

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