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Eating Gitxaała, Being Gitxaała: Food and Cultural Security

New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry

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Title Eating Gitxaała, Being Gitxaała: Food and Cultural Security
 
Creator Gendron, Danielle
 
Subject Indigenous Foods
 
Description This chapter explores the significance of a territory-based food system to Gitxaała Nation, a First Nation located on the North coast of British Columbia. The fieldwork for this chapter was conducted at a time when multiple economic projects are being proposed/pursued in Laxyuup Gitxaała; the perceived ways in which such projects will alter the territory and Gitxaala’s relationship with it have created a sense of concern among Gitxaała people. Gitxaała food is used as the vehicle through which such concerns for the future of Gitxaała Nation are discussed. Ultimately, this chapter examines how Gitxaała food reflects and reveals how Gitxaała people understand themselves as a unique Nation and differentiate themselves from others. I argue that the Gitxaała food system and all of its related practices acts as a method of cultural security.
 
Publisher New Proposals Publishing Society
 
Date 2017-01-05
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
research-article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/188297
 
Source New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry; Vol. 8 No. 1 (2016): Of One Heart: Gitxaała and Our Neighbours; 91
1715-6718
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/188297/186412
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2017 Danielle Gendron
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