Our Sacred Foods Project: Teaching Young Children about our Ancestral Knowledge and Indigenous Foods
October 2 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Indigenous foods provide sustenance and connect us to our ancestors. Our Sacred Foods Project is an Indigenous food initiative led by a nonprofit organization in Minneapolis. In this episode, our panelists share the story of how this project was started and how they expanded their efforts to address food deserts in urban spaces. Through this initiative, Native families of Minneapolis learn about Indigenous foods, food systems, and connections to ancestral knowledge. The Indigenous food scene is growing. We are excited to hear how this effort supports young children and their families in sustaining culture and developing physical, mental, and spiritual health.
Turtle Talk is back! We invite Native parents, teachers, and caregivers, along with those working with Native children and families and those interested in the work of raising our Indigenous children, to join us for the third season of Turtle Talk: Collectively Raising Indige-babies, a BTC Family-to-Family Real Talk virtual conversation series!
The series is convened by the Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative (IELC) Institute and is a fun way to engage parents and families in thinking forward about how we collectively raise Indigenous children and babies in a contemporary and fast-growing technological, global, Indigenous society. Turtle talk refers to our animal relatives speaking with one another and with us. The play on Indigenous babies, “Indige-babies” for short, in the title calls us to look just over the horizon and ask ourselves, “What will the world be like for our babies/children and families? How does being raised in this fast-evolving world with the increasing demand of digital, technological, and cultural engagement impact our traditions and approaches to raising our babies?”
